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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The award itself isn't necessarily impactful. However, there may be value in listing the award in the honors section of the application, as the award title may indicate that the student is an underrepresented minority by race or ethnicity.

I don't know about the rural one, which covers about half the high schools in the US, many of which are actually suburban.[/quote]

College Board has gotten rid of the race and ethnicity awards! They recently announced. [/quote]

I think this is move of a game changer than has been discussed in the news - or here. I saw time and time again, families who seemed perfectly willing to say, "sure" about to the hispanic box to the college board who would not do the same on college applications. "Larlo thinks my mom is Latina! where does he get this stuff??"   (um, from when you said, "go ahead and check that box"). and then they were quick to include the Hispanic National Recognition Program Award on the college app, signaling to colleges race when there wasn't any race in fact to signal
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? You cannot get the Hispanic recognition without at least a grandparent being Hispanic. What are you talking about? [/quote]

it's totally self reported. what are you talking about?[/quote]
DP. No, Hispanic ethnicity was verified by the high school counselor on a form where the counselor also provided GPA. Usually they simply looked in the high school records system to see what your parents registered the student as, though every year someone would post about a counselor asking for proof, usually via parent birth certificate listing one parent from a list of countries.[/quote]

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