The Chronicle of Higher Education

Students Identified as Being of 'Unknown' Race Tend to Be White, Study Finds

By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL

More students are declining to reveal their racial or ethnic identity on their college applications, but, as it turns out, many of those students are white, according to a report released on Wednesday. The number of students whose racial or ethnic classification was reported by their colleges as "unknown" nearly...

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