<p>Don't you have to be more than 1/8 to be considered Native American? </p>
<p>Personally, I'd put black, but that's just me.</p>
<p>it seems a little bit dishonest, if you can you might want to check both, or put mixed..</p>
<p>however if you associate your self with native americans more than being black i would say go for it</p>
<p>You should check both Black and Native American.</p>
<p>I think i will put both black and native american, and i do affliate with native americans, i cannot tell you how many times my family has talked about how white ppl messed over native americans, they care more about that then slavery (and i kind of do to).</p>
<p>then its solved</p>
<p>nice</p>
<p>Well you should be able to prove your tribal affiliation with a BIA card, tracing you back to the original tribal rolls taken a long time ago</p>
<p>Do you need to bc that would be such a hassle :(</p>
<p>Save yourself the trouble and just put black. Chief56 is right. Some schools and all Native American scholarships will ask you to prove your tribal affiliation.</p>
<p>What you can do is put mixed. (Put two races down). However, if you mostly identify yourself as African American, I think you should indicate that.</p>
<p>The US Department of Education has issued new guidelines for reporting ethnicity and race data for public school staff and students. I expect that most colleges/universities will be using these guidelines too. Here's what our school district's mailing to the parents has to say about the definition of American Indian or Alaska Native:</p>
<p>A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains a tribal affiliation or community attachment.</p>
<p>Under the new guidelines, you are allowed to indicate one or more racial group. I'd say, put everything that you feel identified with and let the colleges/universities sort it out.</p>
<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>
<p>I will never understand why it is so hard for so many supporters of racial preferences to not see that opposing racial preferences and supporting numbers only are independent concepts.</p>
<p>It is more polarizing to morally denigrate an opposing view, than to actually challenge it based on merit.</p>
<p>This thread is long that it will take me 2 hours to go through them all, so I'm sorry if this question was repeated.</p>
<p>Will putting Refused to answer, or race unknown be detrimental to my application? Will region matter, for example california's USC/ UBerk v. Upenn/Umich.???</p>
<p>For your first question, absolutely not.</p>
<p>tokenadult has statistics that show that over 20% of students at certain schools choose to report race unknown.</p>
<p>Most common questions that come up in threads like this are answered in the body of the thread-opening post or in links to which that post points. Yes, colleges admit LOTS of students whose ethnicity is unknown. That is not a problem for admission.</p>
<p>Perfect. Clear and to the point. Thanks tokenadult and Fabrizio!</p>
<p>Does it ever work the other way, where schools that want to increase particular URMs give a boost to those who self-identify as those URMs?</p>
<p>Bronxbomber</p>
<p>"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" - Chief Justice Roberts on affirmative action.</p>
<p>This quote only shows one thing. Our president has appointed the absolute worst Justice EVER.</p>
<p>I don't think admissions should be influenced by race, whether through "affirmative" or not. I think admissions SHOULD be allowed to be influenced by economic background. There are plenty of poor-as-dirt white folks out there, just as there are plenty of poor-as-dirt black folks. And I hate how Asians always get grouped into one big clump and it's usually to their disadvantage.</p>
<p>Ealgian you read my mind. I seriously made a reply just like that in another post.</p>