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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of information on the common app makes it very easy to determine race without checking a box. Membership in affinity clubs, first and last name of applicant or parents, neighborhood or zip code if in a city. Let’s just admit that we are trusting AOs to ignore the information in front of them and disregard race. [/quote]

Almost all of the schools DCUM argues over have >50k applicants each year. No one has the time to google baby names and figure out where they came from. And let's be frank - affinity club membership is low single digits. Plus, considering the tenor of this thread who knows whether or not anyone is actually a member of whatever club they write into their ECs.

I don't believe there is anything left to argue here.

1. SC has forbade universities from using race/gender checkboxes
2. Common App has made receiving that data optional
3. No university will ever again accept that data from Common App
4. The top universities will continue admitting only 3-7 percent of their applicants

So the next tranche of disappointed students will have much less grist when they call their attorneys. [/quote]

Google baby names? You cant tell the race of someone with the last name Sanchez, Garcia, Watanabe, Chen, Wang, Park, etc.? Or the first name Juan or Carlos? [/quote]

Or Hakeem Washington or Chad McBryde or Rajesh Koothrapalli? [/quote]

[b]Scott Fujita[/b] isn't actually Japanese. Not even a little bit.

[img]https://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/03/24/sports/fujita/fujita-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale[/img]

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That perplexed look on his face is wondering why he didn't get into harvard despite having all the grades and ECs.  Should have taken his college counselor's advice to change his last name to McFujita.[/quote]

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