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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Race is not part of the application anymore, folks. My kid just applied. There’s no “race box” anymore. You can talk about your race in your essay if you want to but that’s it.[/quote] Wrong - it is still part of the common app - you chose whether you fill it in. It is on almost all requests for info on schools websites - some are optional, some are not but for those you can chose decline to report or check the “other” box. So if SCOTUS says they can use race, why are they still collecting it? Because they use it. 🤨[/quote] It's not used for admission but is used for data collection to see how many X are admitted to the school. It's still a useful statistic. Same as knowing how many women vs men. [/quote] They cannot use for admissions purposes, but they can use for recruitment purposes. That is, if they'd like more URM students, they can send more emails to those students or somehow do something else to encourage applications. URMs are far less likely to apply to top schools for many reasons. So if they can ID those students, they can try to increase # of applications with the theory that they will have then have more qualified applicants in the pool. Once admitted, they can also follow up with whatever segment of students they'd like, and encourage them to come. (Again, URMs are less likely to accept the admissions offers-- schools are far from home, concerns about $$, concerns about whether they would thrive in the community, etc.--- so such followup might help them seal the deal on people they have already admitted.)[/quote] So you are also confirming that they use it. My point has been if they cannot use it it needs to be removed from common app, all school questionnaires etc. It should be a data point the applicant provides AFTER they are accepted - if the reason for having it is to provide statistics on who was admitted/who accepted. [/quote] That doesn't make sense. No kid who is not admitted is going to respond to their follow up survey on demographics.[/quote]
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