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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are checking race box after we did not for prior child. Transparency is what they want …[/quote]
The race boxes don't matter. The application review portal used by AOs does not display the boxes.[/quote]

The universities have additional race box they use for demographics, reported…

I don’t trust anything. Period [/quote]

We were expressly told by counselor to leave it blank (on common app and school app) in 2024. If they don’t need it, can’t use it then why have a box at all ?!?!!!![/quote]
The race box is used by the university's institutional research office to report data required by the Department of Education.* It is not allowed to be used by the admissions office following the US Supreme Court opinion in the SFFA case.[/quote]
*required by the Department of Education for enrolled students and published in the college's Common Data Set.[/quote]

Exactly. That other poster is informed. Who exactly do you think is reviewing this data with a microscope thus coming cycle? I’ll give you a hint: he’s orange.   So- they don’t want to submit anything ambiguous.  Check the box this year- where past years it was none of their business so no box mattered [/quote]

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