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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It will result in lots of trauma essays and I’m a good ally essays. [/quote]

My African American DS refuses to write a trauma essay in response to this type of question. Although he has been profiled by police and in stores, he is upper middle class and doesn't think it is appropriate to construct an essay around racial identity/ trauma or else you are low-income, something significant happened that negatively impacted his life, discrimination in an educational setting, attend an under-resourced school. etc.

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This.  The people most concerned about someone signaling their race via essays and getting some advantage are probably the ones that are the least concerned about actual racism AND are the most likely to bend the rules when it suits them.  Like the PP my kid isn’t writing about something they don’t feel significantly impacted their lives.  My older kid didn’t in their essays two years ago, my youngest isn’t this upcoming year, I didn’t either when I applied in the 90’s.  It’s like the “how did COVID impact your life” optional prompt - the majority of people didn’t use it and you would assume the people that did were significantly impacted.

In a sense it doesn’t matter what SCOTUS ruled, what colleges will or won’t do, how many URMS do or do not write about racial identity or trauma because if there is even one URM (before, during and after affirmative action) it will be assumed that they “took” someone’s place.  The reasons said out loud to justify that feeling may be change through the years but the underlying reason stays the same.[/quote]

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