<p>It is not just on College Confidential that people have these debates. You say yourself that people around you make these snide comments. It is not because they have very specialized information that you don’t. It is because it is common knowledge that minorities receive a boost in college admissions.</p>
<p>And you say that admissions officers would have put two and two together by means of your essay if you had not put down your race. But what if they hadn’t. What if they had only judged you for the information that you supplied, as opposed to attempting to infer more which you were not willing to share. You were already mistaken with one assumption that you made…</p>
<p>“…assumed that those around me would know me and my academic record enough that they would see it was that that got me in - not my skin color”</p>
<p>What if your assumption about the intentions of the admissions officers was also incorrect. Well, we shall never know.</p>