Should your race/ethnicity be kept anonymous when applying to college?
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Many complain that certain people are given unfair advantages/disadvantages due to their race or ethnicity when applying to college. Would it eliminate the controversy by having people's race/ethnicity be anonymous when applying to college? What would be the pros/cons of this?
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i think it should. because some colleges try to diversify based off of race, and others exclude because of race, it would be much more fair if race was not accounted for.
I think it should because i feel it isn't fair for someone to receive special consideration because of their race.
yeah, definitely. it shouldn't matter where you come from, and what the color of your skin is. everyone is basically learning the same way.
I think it should be kept anymounous even I would want to get into a colloge because i earned it not because the school policey says there has to be this number of blacks , hispanic, asian, white . Its not fair too the person who is going to the colloge because of the race or the person who diserves it . If you really want too get into colloge dont use your ancestors use your brain and your talents!
I think you should'nt have to say your race. What does it matter? If I want to get into Yale, and have a perfect application, it should'nt matter if your "white or black or whatever" Whenever we do stuff in school involving you to say your race, I put that I don't want to answer that. It should'nt matter. AT ALL.
i think it should for diversity purposes especially because it gives minorites a lot of help when applying to schools, and regardless the person is smart and brings something different to the school its not just like oh your hispanic so your getting it people have to work for things as well
In my opinion it should be based solely on the applicants success in high school and through out the community
i think it should be kept anonymus, simply because so many college applications are turned down because of the one blank that says RACE: ___________ i mean seriously, we all have a brain, and if the application is good, who in the world CARES if the person is black or white or hispanic or "other", another issue that bothers me is that "other" by the way... but anyway, i know a WHOLE LOT of black, hispanic, and "other" people who are WAY smarter than me, i am white, and sadly, they have less chances of gertting into a good college because of their skin...
but then again, on the other hand, i think it is simply horrible that it needs to be kept anonymus in the first place.
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