College-Bound Students Often Skip Race Question

Excerpt: "I just feel like being a white, middle-class girl from the suburbs is a huge strike against me, and I don't want to further that effect," said Schoen, a 19-year-old Columbia native who just completed her freshman year at the University of Maryland. She added later: "I don't think skin color should have a lot to do with who you are as a person or whether you get into a certain college."

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