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<p>Yes, HS GCs are often not as informed about ethnic and racial status as they should be. I do think that college adcoms have a better understanding of the myriad of combinations possible these days. Our HS changed this year from just letting kids mark one ‘race’ which included Hispanic. I always designated my kids as Hispanic (from their father) even though they are also Asian (me) due to this limitation. This year they have the 2 questions like on the CA and for some mysterious reason the default was to put my D2 as White. I corrected it on her registration forms this fall, but I hope there won’t be any misunderstanding.</p>
<p>I totally understand about your ‘albino’ child and how people don’t understand that ‘looks’ are no indicative of ethnic & racial background. My D1 looks ‘something’, she’s been taken as many things including Pakistani, D2 on the other hand looks 100% Asian, it should be interesting if she goes on Diversity weekends that are directed at URMs.</p>