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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if a white couple adopted a Chinese child at birth? Does that child face tougher admissions criteria like other Asians do?[/quote]

That's pretty much why I started this thread. It's completely unclear and I hoped someone would have information. I'm pretty sure an admissions officer will glance casually at the application (what do they give, 1.5 minutes per application?), see "chinese mom name" and then say "oh, 1450 SAT, that's not that good... plus this kid has a bad personality." BAM. Instead of getting much advice or help, I got a bunch of replies, "U CONFUSED, APP NO ASK FOR PARENT RACE." Gosh, THANKS!![/quote]

You are getting these replies because the notion that admissions officers will cross reference your wife's "Asian sounding" name on the FAFSA with the student's application and make judgements accordingly.  This seems like quite a stretch.  Schools that have a high volume of applications have automated systems for displaying only relevant data to admissions folks (especially at need-blind schools), so I think it's extremely unlikely that any admissions person will be searching out parent names on the FAFSA to make guesses about kids' ethnicities.  In fact, a well designed system will specifically prevent that kind of thing.

Your question makes you seem kind of obsessed with race in a really off-putting way.  [/quote]

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