Race on common app

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do they even need the data? They should get rid of it all.

Though as someone else said, if you aren't smart enough to drop it in your essay ("As president of my school's black students association..."), you aren't smart enough to go to the school.

When I was a student at FSU, the VP of the Black Student Union was a white guy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ravin Wong
Naomi Osaka
Kimora Lee
Jhene Aiko
Lisa Wu
Angela Yee
Karrueche Tran

Aren't they all mixed-race?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Indian-American here. Half of my family, including a parent, came from the Indian diaspora in Africa. I wouldn’t have dreamed of identifying myself as anything other than Asian-American when applying to college or just American, which I am! Africa is an important and valued part of my family history. India is my cultural heritage. America is my core identity.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do they even need the data? They should get rid of it all.

Though as someone else said, if you aren't smart enough to drop it in your essay ("As president of my school's black students association..."), you aren't smart enough to go to the school.

When I was a student at FSU, the VP of the Black Student Union was a white guy.

Was he pretty fly for a white guy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do they even need the data? They should get rid of it all.

Though as someone else said, if you aren't smart enough to drop it in your essay ("As president of my school's black students association..."), you aren't smart enough to go to the school.

When I was a student at FSU, the VP of the Black Student Union was a white guy.

Was he pretty fly for a white guy?

Not really. He was neither nerdy nor fly. He did have friends among many demographics. I just knew he would become a politician, but no, he became an in-house general counsel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do they even need the data? They should get rid of it all.

Though as someone else said, if you aren't smart enough to drop it in your essay ("As president of my school's black students association..."), you aren't smart enough to go to the school.

When I was a student at FSU, the VP of the Black Student Union was a white guy.

Was he pretty fly for a white guy?

Not really. He was neither nerdy nor fly. He did have friends among many demographics. I just knew he would become a politician, but no, he became an in-house general counsel.

I think they were referencing a song - Pretty Fly for a White Guy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ravin Wong
Naomi Osaka
Kimora Lee
Jhene Aiko
Lisa Wu
Angela Yee
Karrueche Tran

Aren't they all mixed-race?

Yea, what boxes should they check? Will the Asian surname hurt them? Will the partial URM heritage help them? Will the admissions officers need to reboot because they can't compute which prejudice to apply?

[Anonymous]

No. The schools will run the data through an algorithm and determine race and other identifiers correctly 99+ percent of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ravin Wong
Naomi Osaka
Kimora Lee
Jhene Aiko
Lisa Wu
Angela Yee
Karrueche Tran

Aren't they all mixed-race?

Some Asians take on another name if they have one most can't pronounce etc., so on the list above can't quite tell if they are Asian "only" or mixed.

[Anonymous]

What if last name is dropped? How about just a first name and numbers, ex. Jane86420?