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[quote=Anonymous]The notion that we could prevent AOs from knowing the race of applicants, or that they're not white, by removing the race question is just silly. As someone who is a URM, I don't think there's any way that I could have written my college essays without making it obvious that I'm not white. Maybe white people don't realize this, but not being white shapes and defines just about every aspect of a POC's life. This is especially true if you are very visibly not white. My kids are URM through me and their other parent is white. I grew up with parents who didn't even go to high school, but my kids have two parents with graduate degrees and high paying, high status jobs. They are lighter skinned than me, and live in an expensive house and have access to all sorts of resources I didn't know existed when I was a kid. Yet their essays still touched on being URM. In order to "tell their story" they had to include racism in their essays. Racism is some powerful shit. [/quote]
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