I haven't applied to uni or anything yet as I've just started my AS levels, so I'll be applying next year, and personally I wouldn't want to be known to everyone as just a number. You could say this is because I'm white and British, but I think it would be far too impersonal otherwise and I highly doubt that any admissions tutor would reject an applicant solely on the ground of his/her race. They just need that information to compile statistics, which is also why you have to fill out a form like that for jobs. I think racism is blown out of all proportion these days and it only seems to work one way- if, for example, someone from an ethnic minority attacked a white, it would just be classed as assault, but if it was the other way around, it would be 'racial' assault. If anything, ethnic minority candidates are MORE likely to get a place than whites of similar ability and potential, not LESS, because of 'positive discrimination', which I also think is a complete joke. I'd want to be accepted not because I was white or black, British or Asian, but because I truly deserved to be, and I don't think race should even come into it. It really annoys me when people from an ethnic minority group who don't get a place or job they applied for cry racism- they can't seem to accept that maybe, just maybe, they simply weren't good enough!