Leaving ethnicity section blank

fireandrain
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:36:23 +0000

Only the admissions office knows this. I’m an alum who has been interviewing for 25+ years and know a lot about admissions, and I haven’t the foggiest idea whether they work hard to read between the lines. But I truly doubt that they assume you are non-URM.

It’s human nature to be curious. Maybe admissions officers try to figure out your ethnicity, but without proof they can’t use their guesses in admissions decisions. Something like 15% of undergrads at Brown are “unknown.”