<p>So I have a Scottish last name, and my family has always thought that we are mostly Scottish, French, and German. I am very light with blonde hair and green eyes. Just for fun we did one of those really cool DNA tests, and it turns out that my mother has a lot of Spanish blood. I hate playing the affirmative action card, but would I be able to check the hispanic/latino box? On the common app. it says (including Spain), so I guess this would count? I didn't check Hispanic/Latino on the SATs because I didn't know at the time... what should I do? Thanks :)</p>
<p>I forgot to add we did the whole ancestry.com thing and we found relatives that are spanish, just in case people don’t buy the whole DNA test thing. It was a packet and we just sent out cheek swabs to a lab…</p>
<p>If you’re at least a fourth Hispanic (meaning one of your grandparents was full Hispanic) then it’s okay, I guess. But if it’s just a bunch of Spanish relatives, I wouldn’t do it. You don’t identify with the culture, after all.</p>
<p>If you had to do a DNA test to find out you had spanish ancestry you are not hispanic. And European spanish is not latino.</p>
<p>lol what is this I don’t even</p>
<p>In a word, NO. In four words, YOU ARE NOT HISPANIC.</p>
<p>Jesus Christ, Allah and Buddha on a tandem bicycle, wow</p>
<p>I also have a question regarding affirmative action:
I’m half Egyptian, a quarter german, and a quarter Italian. I’ve lived in the US my whole life, but my dad spent a good portion of his life in Egypt.</p>
<p>What should I check on the common app? Assuming I did count the egyption, would that count as African American or not? Egypt is of course in Africa, but it’s also frequently referred to as the Middle East.
Compared to blacks, I’m relatively light-skinned, but I’m significantly darker than whites; actually I’m usually taken to be hispanic…</p>
<p>My last name is “El-Badry”</p>
<p>Yes, it would count as African American. The term can be taken literally. That makes you half black, just like Obama. We still call him black, right? ;)</p>
<p>Network: you’ll find that Egyptian ancestry usually won’t give someone an URM boost. Oft discussed subject here.</p>
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<p>Nowhere on the form does it state a minimum criteria for qualifying for any ethnic category. One drop of black blood used to make your black in the Old South. I think 1/16th American Indian with a registered tribe is enough. The form is vague enough that you could check the Hispanic box because you were told by a past-lives hypno-therapist that you are the reincarnation of Ponce de Leon.</p>
<p>Oh ok, excuse me. That’s sort of frustrating. You’d think that when they say “African American” they would mean it.</p>