<p>...for lying about your ethnicity on your college application? Can they prove otherwise?</p>
<p>Does anyone know?</p>
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<p>if you are awarded a race/ethnicity based scholarship, then you can be forced to return it.</p>
<p>generally, lying on an application is bad business. most schools have an honor code, and if they find you breaking it, you might risk expulsion (even though i am unsure how one's race/ethnicity could be verified for such purposes).</p>
<p>Thanx,</p>
<p>I guess I was wondering how schools verify this information. I mean how many self identified "Native Americans" are really just your average white kid.</p>
<p>Michael Dorris (sp ?) lied about being Native American after he started Native American Studies at Dartmouth. He was forced to resign and his life ended tragically. You don't need to feel so desperate that you'd lie. Trust the process.</p>
<p>Actually, I believe you have to be more careful about Native American, than, say, Hispanic, which can encompass pretty much anyone. For NatAm, they often ask about specific affiliation, and this leads me to think they may be more scrutinous.
But why would you do suck a thing? To be honest, the fact that you're considering it indicates to me that you do not deserve to go to a top school. I am actually part Native American, enough that I could technically have put in on my apps. But I have not identified with it in any way throughout my life, and it has not affected me in any way, so I put that I was White, which is what I consider myself. I got into the college I wanted, and I know plenty of other white and asian kids who did also.</p>