<p>Is half black/white considered a URM or minority at all?</p>
<p>As wrong and as racist as this might seem, I think it depends a lot on your skin color, family background, and experiences growing up.</p>
<p>My question really is, since college's wont know the color of my skin, will it help me to check african amercan/black and to also check white.</p>
<p>What race does your high school have you marked as? You should go with that.</p>
<p>it just says other</p>
<p>Haha okay well if I were in your position I'd put down black (or whatever this week's PC term is).</p>
<p>Although you should consult with someone more experienced than me. I am not a counselor.</p>
<p>drjay:</p>
<p>Hey man, it is written in the UC application that "they do no consider your race towards your admission...it is optional"</p>
<p>I found it on the application instruction page 17...read it and tell me what you think.</p>
<p>I was talking about private colleges, not UCs.</p>
<p>I'm also half/half...I thought of it in this way - what do you consider yourself to be? If someone were to ask in person, what would your impulse answer be?</p>
<p>Wouldn't he just say he's 50% both? That's the response I'd give. I find it hard to forsake one part of my ancestry in favor of another. Why not embrace the whole?</p>
<p>doesn't the common app say check all that apply? just do that.</p>
<p>im half hispanic but i always put myself down as hispanic, even though I look white, I'm in the upper-middle-class and I've grown up around 'white kids'.</p>
<p>I personally feel more hispanic than white... so go with what you feel like</p>