<p>I am a caucasian female from urban New York. Should I check caucasian for race or not submit any at all??</p>
<p>Any opinions would be GREATLY appreciated....</p>
<p>Where are you applying? Does the school ban affirmative action?</p>
<p>I am applying to some small, competitive liberal arts schools, as well as NYU, Fordham, CUNY Honors College, Yale, Columbia…none of which I think have a ban of affirmative action.</p>
<p>im white, and i am checking it. i dont think it would help you that much if you decided not to mark it.</p>
<p>Applying to a school that banned Affirmative Action won’t help you at all. If anything, you’re more likely to get picked over by a better qualified Asian.</p>
<p>Maybe you should opt not to reveal your gender too. You are a female after all, right?</p>
<p>Yea, I’m a female. I just feel that if I opt to not answer, they may automatically assume that I am from some ethnicity/gender that is disadvantageous…and figuring out which is disadvantageous is not that difficult. If it would help, why wouldn’t I check it? So, by not checking anything at all, is it looking like I disagree with the entire concept or am I just revealing what I am trying to hide?</p>
<p>why would you not just be honest and check it</p>
<p>This is moot point. Colleges have access to this information from the report your school sends along with your transcript, so just check the correct boxes and be done with it.</p>
<p>agreed.
Let the chips fall where they may</p>
<p>I think you should check it. It’s no going to be the difference between whether you get in or not. It’s marginal. And you should be honest too.</p>
<p>White is the neutral race when it comes to “balancing,” “boosting,” and socially engineering.</p>
<p>Checking it will not hurt you.</p>
<p>White>Asian, I think, so you might as well. Also, if you don’t check anything, they’re going to wonder why. They’ll think you have something to hide, and that’s not good either.</p>
<p>Here’s an idea: IT DOESN’T MATTER!!! You have so much other s.hit to deal with right now, forget about what box to check and do your essay or whatever. Have fun, hang out with friends. You people are so insane about college it is ridiculous.</p>
<p>lol…its not insanity, its reality. Being obsessed about minute details isn’t a human instinct, so it must be something we all picked up from society. Blame them.</p>
<p>This is a reasonable question, and I don’t think one should accuse OP of dishonesty just because she contemplates not answering an optional question. Michelle Hernandez, a former admissions officer who wrote “A is For Admission” recommended not checking the race box unless it could help you. She even recommended not including generational references (i.e., III) that would make you look like a product of old-line privilege. She may actually know what she’s talking about!</p>
<p>If your name is Lopez, don’t check the race box. If it’s Goldstein, you may as well. If you understand me.</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure, but I feel as if checking an underrepresented box (i.e, african american, hispanic, american indian) is going to help you more than checking an overrepresented box will hurt you. Does this make sense? Basically, if you’re looking to boost your chances, it’s better to lie and check some race that you’re not than to not check any box at all. </p>
<p>So just check white.</p>
<p>Again, colleges can figure out this information whether you check the box or not from your school’s report.</p>
<p>A growing number of applicants decline to answer the ethnic self-identification question, </p>
<p><a href=“http://members.ucan-network.org/harvard[/url]”>ucan-network.org; </p>
<p>(see the “diversity” chart lower down on the webpage) </p>
<p>and that question is OPTIONAL on all college applications. I am part of a “biracial” family, and I think it is SILLY to consider humankind to be divided up into “races,” all of which are arbitrarily defined and differently defined in different parts of the world. So some people who think like me, who want to emphasize their commonality with the rest of humankind, don’t answer those questions as a matter of principle. Colleges in the United States are required to track ethnic data (according to the arbitrary federal ethnic categories) for applicants, admitted students, and enrolled students, but there is no legal requirement for applicants to supply the information.</p>
<p>i dont agree with racial classification either. but my ethnicity is european. i have pale skin. ive never been a victim of racism. so im just going to check white.</p>