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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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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The UC application deadline has been extended from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 after technical difficulties experienced by many applicants.
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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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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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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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