A check box for the little things
Looking back now, the perception I had of UC Berkeley as a senior in high school saddens me immensely. A Cal Day visit and four years later, it is safe to say it was the best box I ever checked.
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UC application deadline extended to Dec. 4 after technical difficulties
The UC application deadline has been extended from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 after technical difficulties experienced by many applicants.
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Students fight the imposing of identities
The implications of the creation of a Southwest Asian/North African category on the UC application
With the excitement that comes with filling out college applications, we cannot remember a time when we could breeze through the ethnicity portion without having to stop and think about which false identity to group ourselves under. Would it be “Other,” a statistic that is rarely counted on a national
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UC to include Southwest Asian, North African category on next year’s undergraduate application
Following a campaign led by UC Berkeley students to expand representation of historically miscategorized groups, the University of California will become among the country’s first universities to collect and report data on Southwest Asian and North African students next year.
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Recognizing the ‘Others’
Adding a new ethnicity checkbox to the application would recognize the cultures of some of those currently classified as 'Caucasian'
I had grown up most of my life with no questions about my ethnic identity: I am an Armenian American whose family is from Egypt, and growing up I was given the privilege to be proud of my multicultural background. Though I recognized at a young age that on all
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