<p>I am most likely 1/8 or 1/16 Native American. I consider myself "white", however, having recently found out this info, can I say I am Native American? Sorry if this is a repeat of an older thread.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure colleges make people who put down the category "Native American" show a tribe identification card. Probably to weed out people who put it down just to increase their chances of getting in. </p>
<p>I strongly suggest you <em>don't</em> do that. lol</p>
<p>you have to be a registered tribe member</p>
<p>Okay, it might also be kinda immoral,but applying to selective college is a desperate situation.</p>
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Colleges love to point to statistics to show how "diverse" they are, in the end though, you can have every different ethnicity in the world, but if they all have the same interests, political views, etc. than it's not really going to provide you with "diverse" experiences.
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Luckily, you probably won't find a college campus where the students all have the same interests, political views, etc. Ain't holistic admissions grand? ;)</p>
<p>put both lol. it does say all that apply. so put caucasian and native american. see what happens =]</p>
<p>^hahahahaha</p>
<p>Well, immorality aside, I think top selective colleges will look into your tribe registration before considering accepting you based on affirmative action. And I'm guessing you're not registered, so... yeah.</p>
<p>ah, the morals of todays youth.</p>
<p>You have to wonder what the CEOs of Enron were like as teenagers...</p>
<p>^^^ haha... </p>
<p>OP, please tell me you know which tribe it is. :/</p>
<p>Thanks EtTuBrutus, for giving me the image of a stereotypical Native American dressed as a pimp.</p>
<p>you know, I'm sure not everybody with a decent amount of native american in them has a tribal membership. It's perfectly possible for someone to be significantly native american but not have heritage ties to any specific tribe or may not even know what tribe they belong to. </p>
<p>sure it's a long shot, but possible nonetheless.</p>
<p>^ i agree; i know people who are NAs but don't have a tribal number. They were adopted tho</p>
<p>I don't want to base my aplication on being a URM, but if that can give me a slight egde. I don't know my tribe, because my mother was adopted, a closed one. I am not even sure, but my mother looks NA, and brother does too. Also, back in the day, agencies would lie about ethnicities because being NA decreased chances of being adopted.However, I think it is worth looking into.</p>
<p>yeah i do think that if you are 1/8 NA then put it down</p>
<p>MODERATOR"S NOTE TO "Native American?" THREAD: </p>
<p>The "Native American?" thread has been merged with the general FAQ thread on ethnic self-identification in college admission. See the thread-opening post for some links to official definitions.</p>
<p>I know that applications marked solely URM (no mixing) are considered in a special pool in college applications, but what about mixed races - say, if someone were half Asian and half African American and marked both ethnicities on the app? How are multiple ethnicity applications considered in the admissions process (as in, what do colleges do with them?)? </p>
<p>I'm sure this question has been answered somewhere before, but the Search function is so vague that I can never dig out the pertinent threads from the masses of irrelevant ones, so I'm asking again.</p>
<p>Isnt the point of affirmative action to give people who otherwise wouldnt have the chance to, an opportunity to suceed? I support this goal; however, why is it based on race rather than economic status/education background? Are there not wealthy and privledged blacks and poor, uneducated whites. Why should the economically privledged blacks get an advantage over the under-privledged whites? Why should the economically privledged whites NOT get an advantage over under-privledged blacks? It doesnt make sense.</p>
<p>Not this topic again. </p>
<p>OP, if you're such a CC fanatic, search this site and you will find plenty of discussion on the merits (or lack of) of AA. Starting another thread will not change your mind or anyone else's.</p>
<p>If someone has a mother that is caucasian and a father that is half caucasian and half Native American does that person just consider themselves caucasian or Native American?</p>