<p>[Who</a> Are You, Anyway? | Harvard Magazine Jul-Aug 2001](<a href=“http://harvardmagazine.com/2001/07/who-are-you-anyway.html]Who”>http://harvardmagazine.com/2001/07/who-are-you-anyway.html)</p>
<p>(It is a decade old, but I think one of the clearest, and one of very few semi-official, comments on the subject.) If you skim, you may think it says simply that it increases your chances. Instead, mostly it says that it lets them figure out more about who you are, which is mostly neutral/slightly good, I think. But it also does have this caveat:
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