<p>"I'm a peaceful person and I grew up on Long Island. Therefore I am a Pacific Islander and that's going on my apps!"</p>
<p>Haha nice one! lol</p>
<p>micheeatsfish, im pretty sure dima wasnt being serious.....anti-AA people you better be reading my last post, it took me long enough to type it.</p>
<p>I really don't see why the applications process should be fair. Especially if it favors people like me.</p>
<p>I also cringe when I see people griping about AA being unfair. Shut the f0ck up and deal with it.</p>
<p>when you say things like that, you hurt the pro-AA argument and lose people like me from your side of the argument</p>
<p>"If your half morrocan and where your live, your culture is maybe almost primarily morrocan, you tell people your morrocan e.t.c and identify with morroco, then you can check yourself as black.
But as you said, you're basically WHITE JEW. so don't now.
(i remember one of those forms stating clearly: choose the group you most identify with."</p>
<p>Wow, guys, did you miss the part of my post where I said I was just curious, would not do that, and it was a joke my father had brought up? You guys really only hear what you want to. I'm not trying to exploit AA, I checked off white and I go to Cornell, tools. I'm going to be a sophomore. It really wasn't hard to read the entire post, it was only a few sentences. I was wondering if, in my situation, I could have technically done that. Purely a hypothetical situation, since, as I said, I identify myself as a white Jew, not African. My dad isn't black, either, he's a Moroccan Jew, but has over 700 years of Moroccan ancestry, so doesn't consider himself to be European.</p>
<p>"Contrary to belief on this board, checking a race box is not an automatic admit."</p>
<p>Jesus, reread my post. I got into Cornell as a white/caucasian applicant, I was just freakin' curious, lol. I wouldn't do it because I don't think it's ethical.</p>
<p>When I replied to your post.. I was putting that out there for other kids that my get crazy ideas.</p>
<p>I apologize if you were offended by my response.</p>
<p>warped...i seriously hope that is sarasm..or something</p>
<p>unacceptable...just unacceptable</p>
<p>I'm just annoyed that you guys didn't read the entire post and started attacking me for applying as an African, when I clearly stated that I didn't do that and it was a joke brought up by my father. It really isn't very hard to read a few sentences. I was simply curious because my dad thinks I could have technically done that. I mean, I wouldn't have even if I could, since I'm probably the whitest white person around.</p>
<p>And again... I was just putting the information out there. There is no need to get so upset. Again, I apologize. In fact, I apologize on behalf of everyone that responded negatively to your post.</p>
<p>hey spanks
my reply wasn't directed at you specifically (i did read the part where you refused to check it and your dad joked about it). It was just my opinion of an answer to your curiosity and I guess i worded it wrongly. my mistake.</p>
<p>And like Latoya, I apologize if you were offended by my response.</p>
<p>I'm just annoyed and I was simply looking for a yes or no response, not an ethics debate. Even if it's wrong, is it legal?</p>
<p>i think alot of people who are against affirmative action misinterprit the reason for its purpose. The reason it is used is to create diversity on a school campus. How many homogeneous schools would there be in this country if there wasn't AA? Alot more than there are now. Regardless if the minority is poor or rich, an upper class african american will have different values and will have been raised differently than an upper class white american. Having said that, just putting those two in a room is bound to only help each other understand about how other people live, regardless of the money they have.</p>
<p>I think people who aren't ethnically a minority and who bit** about how AA is unfair, when they are poor themselves, and don't live better than their minority counterparts, also fail to realize that being poor, regardless of your race/ethnic background also helps you out in admissions, because that also brings DIVERSITY into a campus, why do you think harvard will give you a free ride if you can get in and your parents make less than 60k a year?</p>
<p>the same thing goes for those kids in states that are not represented greatly in the student body, you get an advantage from being from say alaska, then say a state like new york or california.</p>
<p>I'm just annoyed and I was simply looking for a yes or no response, not an ethics debate. Even if it's wrong, is it legal?</p>
<p>It's a voluntary questionnaire. and i guess it's just a matter of honesty not legality (not sure though).
there are people who decide not to identify themselves as anything.
I don't know why some assume that their lives depend on it.</p>
<p>I mean, realistically, checking off a URM gives you a huge advantage.</p>
<p>"Even if it's wrong, is it legal?"</p>
<p>Fraud is illegal no matter how you look at it....</p>
<p>true talk, liek0806!!</p>
<p>There probably will be someone who'll create a NewYork/Mass thread calling against the "unfair" preference for Alabama (and underrepresented states) kids in the addmission process.
And how it's depriving them of their right to education. lol</p>
<p>people should try to put themselves in each other's shoes sometimes.</p>
<p>Lol, jeez, I am half African, technically. So I don't really think it would be "fraud", per se...just underhanded and toolish. </p>
<p>AA based solely on socioeconomic status is more fair than advantage based on race.</p>
<p>“AA based solely on socioeconomic status is more fair than advantage based on race”</p>
<p>-Every time I hear this, I laugh at just how little people know about the situation. Tell me, just how is this “more fair”????</p>
<p>Because it doesn't differentiate applicants based on race. Doesn't most of the AA argument pertain to leveling the playing field for poor minorities in urban communities anyways? Why not just give advantage to poor people in general? How about poor white people?</p>