Removed for identity protection. Many thanks for your advice.
If you’re unhappy with the specified categories or feel it doesn’t accurately describe your predicament, check “other”. You can write a diversity statement to that effect or an addendum etc.
This. Check the “other” box, write in “Coptic”, and include a DS explaining why you did that and how it means you’d add diversity to the school.
Thanks for the advice. I will check “other” and talk about my heritage; hope to get a bit of a boost for being an ethnic minority who is very much involved with my heritage, though not a URM boost.
My brother (technically half brother: he is applying this year and also frequents this blog) is part black Egyptian, and is really going to cash out on that. I can’t say that the notion of doing the same didn’t cross my mind. But ultimately, I think schools use African-American interchangably with black.