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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am Asian (Korean-American adoptee) and my kids are bi-racial (DH is white non-hispanic). Based on the higher test score expectations for Asian students, should my kids not check the box when they apply as Asian? [/quote] As a parent of an adopted Korean child, I think it is very sad that our societ and in this instance, college admissions, creates a situation where people have to deny a part of their heritage and play the race game to gain advantage. I don't blame you for playing the odds, but it is really sick that we have to do so. [/quote]

I am the PP and I am not "playing the odds." My kids are really little, lol. And I don't even know if my kids would apply to the type of schools where being Asian of any percentage would be a disadvantage numbers-wise. But I have always felt terrible when confronted with these boxes because culturally I am not Asian or even Asian-American if that means having family of the same race. When I applied to college back in the day, I left my race blank because I didn't feel like I fit into one of the boxes. I would not encourage my kids to lie on an application for their race, but I am sad that I am raising them like white kids but they will be disadvantaged in the race category like Asian kids! [/quote]

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