| Hi, Hunt, maybe you and I can both invest a fair amount of hope that colleges will develop a more nuanced form of holistic admission in which socioeconomic factors loom larger than rough ethnic categorizations. I definitely support the idea of students continuing to be free to explain their individual contexts, as happens, for example, when a Hmong student from St. Paul, Minnesota tells about growing up in a refugee camp in Thailand before coming to the United States at high school age. It would be a perversion of the current federally mandated ethnic reporting system to say, "Yet another Asian applicant," and not give a person like that a second look. |