<p>Yes. It’s not a guarantee of admission, but to say that it doesn’t help in selective university admissions would be a lie. Your choice whether you want to self-identify.</p>
<p>I think I’ll talk to my counselor about it when we go back to school. I’m a little worried about all of the previous school forms/standardized tests that I’ve filled out/taken that have listed me as white…it would probably look fishy if I suddenly “became” Hispanic, you know? Haha.</p>
<p>Not necessarily. Due to the way race and ethnicity are categorized in this country, you can be both white and Hispanic. Neither invalidates the other.</p>
<p>I was born in Pakistan but I have relatives from both the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. What box should I check for ethnicity?</p>
<p>The general consensus is that it’d be more beneficial to check “Caucasian” for your race. Neither of those places would allow you to justify “Hispanic,” though, unless you have further lineage.</p>
<p>Not sure if this is the right place to ask…
I’ll be a senior this fall and I plan on leaving the race/ethnicity field blank when applying to colleges. However, I may have answered these questions when taking previous standardized tests, filling out surveys etc. Will the admissions officers have access to this previous information or will they only look at my response on my application?</p>
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<p>As far as I know, they only look at your response on your application.</p>
<p>If the deadline was a day after you submitted your application through the common app, is it considered late if it takes up to 2 business days to send it to the college even if you submitted it on time?</p>
<p>Are you saying you submitted it through postal mail rather than just online? If so, they’ll look at when it was postmarked. If you submitted it online, it’s considered late but if your payment is in you should be fine (it takes a few days to download, so it’s more or less the same). If it isn’t, there’s not much you can do other than ask for a refund at this point.</p>
<p>I had sent in everything in already, only thing I needed was the apply texas app. The transcript, LOR, SAT scores were already sent and received. I submitted the app with payment yesterday, when the deadline is today at midnight. So I’m not really sure.</p>
<p>Do colleges generally like bi-racial students?</p>
<p>I don’t really want to check anything at all in the Race/Ethnicity section, even though my family forces me to, saying that filling it can help me with grants, aids and such. Is that true? If I leave it blank, can it risk my being accepted? I really hate labeling my self, it’s a personal/moral thing, to me, I’m just an American, since I have citizenship…But my family makes it seem like I’m committing such a huge crime by “denying” where I was born, even though I don’t identify with the label society wants to put me just for being born there… >.> Any help?</p>
<p>I commend you, purple, for wanting to take that stand. We are on the other end of the spectrum, feeling frustrated seeing acceptances with weaker stats, scores, ECs but with race having been the hook. I won’t debate how it “should” be but respect that you would choose to be evaluated for your accomplishments. </p>
<p>All of that said, the reality is there is a system that rewards non white race/ethnicity and taking your stand will prevent you from having benefits which are available to you. Perhaps you check off the box that indicates you are from where you are then use any advantages that come your way to help people stop seeing differences rather than perpetuating being separate.</p>
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<p>The first few pages of this thread from tokenadult show that at many top schools, a large minority of the student body is “race unknown.” Moreover, you have the right to decline self-identification. Make of that what you will.</p>
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<p>I don’t get this. Genetically speaking, there is no such thing as race. It isn’t something that actually exists. So since it has no scientific basis and is entirely subjective, you should be able to select anything you want.</p>
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<p>Bull. My skin color isn’t all tan.</p>
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<p>I agree with you that the only race is human, but the “box” has rules attached to it. If you find the rules do not conform to your view on race, I suggest you decline self-identification.</p>
<p>Of course, the question becomes where do we find the specific rules for each box? Does the definition used by College Board or ACT overlap with the Federal Govt or with each individual college/university?</p>
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I’d like to know this too. If the rules aren’t explicitly defined, then we literally can check anything we want.</p>
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<p>It sure is part of it.</p>