Are UCs race blind even if they don’t do AA

Yes, as near as makes no difference. And no, they aren’t checking out zip codes to ferret out ethnicity.

As is so often the case, quantification is your friend. Look at the admissions data the UC system releases. Look how stats based they are. Very very little wriggle room for sneaking in racist calls.

OP, you are so sure that the dice are stacked against you because of your gender, race and zip code. Your certainty that you have a harder race to run than anybody else colors almost every post you make. But you are mistaken.

You want to “win” one of the hardest games at the very highest level- and at that is just hard. Olympics level hard. All the energy you are putting into these posts to fight a mirage is not only wasted, but it is adding extra rocks to your backpack. What you want to do- CS at the best school in the US- is a heavy enough lift without worrying about whether somebody else might have more advantages than you do. Those include being a male, in a top school with plenty of the essential resources (food, shelter, internet access). 100% there are kids across town who have just as much potential as you do, but do not have all those advantages.

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