"Students are ...declining to identify themselves as Asian"

[sakky]

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“I didn’t want to put `Asian’ down,” Olmstead says, “because my mom told me there’s discrimination against Asians in the application process.” For years, many Asian-Americans have been convinced that it’s harder for them to gain admission to the nation’s top colleges…Asian-Americans are evaluated not as individuals, but against the thousands of other ultra-achieving Asians who are stereotyped as boring academic robots. Now, an unknown number of students are responding to this concern by declining to identify themselves as Asian on their applications…

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<p>[Some</a> Asian Students Don’t Identify As Asian For College Admissions](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost)</p>

[aegrisomnia]

<p>Well, I suppose that’s why it’s optional. Then again, I wonder whether there are any trends involving applicants who don’t self-identify?</p>