<p>^ College applications routinely ask for the educational background of both parents of the applicant. Omitting an essential fact it still lying on the application, and could still be a basis for being silently denied admission, or having worse consequences after admission.</p>
<p>Not to mention if the parent’s occupation reveals his or her education level, it will be clear. Parent occupation and education is, I believe, usually required information.</p>
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<p>I take it you’re male. Many women would prefer to see a female physician for a variety of reasons. It’s not a reason to choose a heart surgeon, but for common everyday ailments, not to mention female issues, many women prefer a woman doctor.</p>
<p>And to address the issue of seeking out an African-American doctor…I can imagine doing that, just to balance the injustice practiced by those who avoid such doctors on principle. Sad to say, it happens.</p>
<p>So no, it’s not just “marketing.”</p>
<p>And since physicians, clinics, and hospitals all are premitted to advertise, don’t you think there are MALE doctors (and sites) that aren’t necessarily the best in their field, just the best at marketing themselves as “experts” in their field?</p>
<p>Hi all. =) My friend, who is Asian Indian, was worrying today about affirmative action in college admissions. Perhaps naively, I assured her that some institutions (like the UC system) do not consider race. Well, hopefully, her ethnicity won’t keep her from getting into a good college, anyway, but now I’m curiosity.</p>
<p>Which colleges and universities do NOT take racial or ethnic status into account during admissions?</p>
<p>Caltech doesn’t, I think</p>
<p>Thanks. Any others?</p>
<p>I’ve heard that Rice doesn’t, but on their website it says they do consider race as an admissions factor…</p>
<p>Caltech claims to consider racial classification in their Common Data Set. For whatever reason, their student body’s makeup by racial classification closely mirrors what Espenshade predicted would be the case at a university that did not consider racial classification.</p>
<p>Public universities in California, Washington, Michigan, and Nebraska are not allowed to consider racial classification due to voter initiatives. Florida’s public universities are forbidden from considering racial classification due to state executive order. Neither UGA nor Georgia Tech claims to consider racial classification in their Common Data Sets, perhaps because of the case Johnson vs. Board of Regents of University System of Georgia.</p>
<p>Even if a college considers racial classification, it probably won’t be a big factor at all if the college isn’t selective (ie. admits more than it rejects). At many schools in the nation, as long as your SAT and GPA are high enough, you’re in. It’s only when you get to selective colleges and universities that you have to consider subjective criteria because they will simply have too many applications from students who have high SAT scores and GPA.</p>
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<p>Yes. Most colleges admit most applicants. Only a few colleges are both highly desirable and highly affordable, and thus in a position to decline to admit the great majority of their applicants. If you are interested in a particular college, make an honest effort to get ready for it academically and socially, and then apply. Maybe you will get in, and maybe you will not. But applying and seeing what happens is the only way to know for sure.</p>
<p>How is the college search going for the juniors posting to this thread?</p>
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<p>I have solidified most of my reach-school plans, but I am still deciding on my plans for EA vs. RD and on my match schools (hopefully those with merit aid).</p>
<p>All races are equally smart. This has been empirically proven by a large number of experts, including those from the New York Times. </p>
<p>Racism, stereotype threats, and all sorts of nasty environmental factors contribute to the lower SAT scores of URMs. </p>
<p>Affirmative action is fair. End of story.</p>
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<p>It’s a pretty big jump from “various factors contribute to the lower SAT scores of URMS” to “Affirmative action is fair. End of story.”</p>
<p>Additionally, URMs major in very difficult subjects, like African-American Studies, and STILL manage to earn stellar grades.</p>
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<p>I have never in my life previously heard of African-American Studies as a “very difficult subject.” Nevertheless, what does this have to do with anything related to affirmative action?</p>
<p>It was sarcasm.</p>
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<p>Sarcasm is very difficult to tell in writing unless there is a ton of it. Six sentences in four paragraphs hardly counts as enough.</p>
<p>I’m not disputing that.</p>
<p>I’ll note for the record that my son tells me he had a black classmate in the abstract algebra class at the university where he took dual-enrollment classes, and that classmate seemed to be keeping up quite well. To me, a person who has never taken such a course, abstract algebra seems like an indisputably difficult subject.</p>
<p>Just for the record, it would not occurr to any of my kids to mention the color of anyone in their classes. Honestly, it just wouldn’t.</p>
<p>Yeah, just for the record, it would never occur to me to consider the difference in performance between the different “races” of students in my classroom. I can’t on earth figure out why I’d go home and say, “Well there’s a Native American girl in my class and she’s doing awesome!”</p>