Race on common app

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We left it blank.

Kid did very well in admissions.

You are not required to check the box.

Yes. But why an outdated question? To help families make decision when they are looking at the CDS?

To detect wokeness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They can still see your Asian last name. Unless you change your last name to something else, hiding race information on common app is futile.

Robert E. Lee was asian?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They can still see your Asian last name. Unless you change your last name to something else, hiding race information on common app is futile.

Robert E. Lee was asian?

Lee is an ambiguous family name.

Huang, Nguyen, or Kim; not so much.

[Anonymous]

So are kids not supposed to put their race/heritage in essays? If Asian?

PP wrote Asian with high stats should include their race - why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They can still see your Asian last name. Unless you change your last name to something else, hiding race information on common app is futile.

Robert E. Lee was asian?

Lee is an ambiguous family name.

Huang, Nguyen, or Kim; not so much.

You can change your last names. I know of Asian who changed their kid’s last name from Yu to Yule. They sound about the same. The latter is a British last name. Kid had amazing college results.

Kim can be Kimberly.
Huang can be Juan. URM!
Nguyen … not sure what to do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They can still see your Asian last name. Unless you change your last name to something else, hiding race information on common app is futile.

Robert E. Lee was asian?

Lee is an ambiguous family name.

Huang, Nguyen, or Kim; not so much.

You can change your last names. I know of Asian who changed their kid’s last name from Yu to Yule. They sound about the same. The latter is a British last name. Kid had amazing college results.

Kim can be Kimberly.
Huang can be Juan. URM!
Nguyen … not sure what to do

I know a politician that went by the last name Keam instead of Kim. He was a real tool and turned his back on the constituency that elected him to suck up to the far left of his party.

Nguyen=Wynn (this way at least people will know how to pronounce the name).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So are kids not supposed to put their race/heritage in essays? If Asian?

PP wrote Asian with high stats should include their race - why?

That is a bad advice. It still makes sense not to highlight your race if you are asian. It still makes sense to highlight your race if you are URM with an emphasis on how your experiences would add a unique perspective to the discourse.

The admissions officers still want racial diversity and asians are overrepresented by a lot at every selective college or university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So are kids not supposed to put their race/heritage in essays? If Asian?

PP wrote Asian with high stats should include their race - why?

That is a bad advice. It still makes sense not to highlight your race if you are asian. It still makes sense to highlight your race if you are URM with an emphasis on how your experiences would add a unique perspective to the discourse.

The admissions officers still want racial diversity and asians are overrepresented by a lot at every selective college or university.

Honey, AOs cannot see the race box. It’s for the fed to see.

[Anonymous]

Sorry DCUM haters, but smart black kids will still get accepted to top colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So are kids not supposed to put their race/heritage in essays? If Asian?

PP wrote Asian with high stats should include their race - why?

That is a bad advice. It still makes sense not to highlight your race if you are asian. It still makes sense to highlight your race if you are URM with an emphasis on how your experiences would add a unique perspective to the discourse.

The admissions officers still want racial diversity and asians are overrepresented by a lot at every selective college or university.

Honey, AOs cannot see the race box. It’s for the fed to see.

Sweetie, there are other ways to highlight race. It's why all the essay prompts suddenly shifted after the SFFA ruling.
The Admissions officers still want racial diversity and will continue to try and achieve it through essays and proxies and pipelines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry DCUM haters, but smart black kids will still get accepted to top colleges.

Why apologizing? We want smart black kids to get into top colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry DCUM haters, but smart black kids will still get accepted to top colleges.

Smart black kids have been going to top colleges for more than 40 years now. Absolutely no college has been discriminating against smart black kids for a very long time now.

The concern is mediocre students using race as an admissions advantage. And that tends to hurt white and Asian applicants, so everyone has their hackles on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry DCUM haters, but smart black kids will still get accepted to top colleges.

There aren't enough to satisfy the demand.
There are more black students in Ivy+ than black students that scores 1400+ on the SAT

About half the black students at Harvard be going to Cornell and almost all the black students at Columbia should probably be going to Northeastern or NYU and the black students at Georgetown and NYU should probably be going to Penn State or Howard. These are all very good schools but they are not the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The box is not viewable by admissions during application review.

The box still exists because colleges are still required to report the data to the federal government on the enrolled class.

What if everyone checked "choose not to answer"?

A lot of URM kids will check the box. You would too if it was you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about you guys choose ‘Asian’ if you say there is no Asian discrimination? You’re suddenly so informed when it matters

This!

All the mix race kids I know of chose the non-Asian race in college application.

Goes to show people here are just hypocrites and down right racists. Only racists would defend this racism knowing it’s true.

They have convinced themselves there is a good kind of racism and they are the good kind of racist.