<p>I am Hispanic but have a white surname. On college apps I just indicated Hispanic and no race. Well I just realized today that my high school has me listed on the transcript as 100% white (there is a Hispanic option). And I've already sent my transcripts in so I don't think I can ask the school to change it.</p>
<p>I'm becoming worried that this will be an issue. There is basically 0 proof that I am Hispanic (since my surname is white) and the transcripts point to the opposite... will the colleges doubt my honesty? I obviously want to be recognized as my ethnicity because of the big boost that comes from being a URM at the top schools...</p>
<p>Any suggestion on what to do? Or is it a non-issue?</p>
<p>Did you check Hispanic on the SAT? Did you get Hispanic scholar or commended?</p>
<p>The Hispanic boost is not particularly large, but you’re right to be worried about the incongruency. Let your guidance counselor know and see if she can contact the colleges you’ve applied to.</p>
<p>You have to have your school contact your schools.</p>
<p>You don’t want a school to think that you were seeking some kind of unfair advantage.</p>
<p>Have you indicated that you were Hispanic on other things at your high school? Did you indicate that you are Hispanic on your PSAT or school records?</p>
<p>BTW…how did you “realize” that your school indicated that you’re White on your transcripts?</p>
<p>I don’t understand. Indicating one’s race is optional on the common application. Why does high school put students race on the transcript?</p>
<p>I AM a National Hispanic Scholar, but there was a problem with me receiving that too (I received it 2 months late and after a lot of phone calls…) so I don’t know.</p>
<p>I realized it because my school just started providing this online service that let’s you view your grades/transcript and is constantly updated, and I saw that I’m listed as white.</p>
<p>And yeah honestly it is ridiculous that they even list it, considering it is optional on the CA so it should be private… wouldn’t care normally since I have nothing to hide, but seeing as they screwed this up…</p>
<p>dodgerblue93</p>
<p>Every ad com in the country should know good and well that Race and Ethnicity are different categories. Every single one of them that works at an institution that receives federal funding is at an institution that is obligated to follow the guidelines on that topic that are set up by the Department of Education. If you are handed a form that doesn’t separate the question about race from the question about hispanic/non-hispanic ethnicity, you are dealing with an organization that is too cheap to update their forms - which should be an indication to you that it is an organization that you probably don’t want to be associated with.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about this one. The ad coms have dealt with plenty of hispanic O’Learys, Wangs, Kims, Vollmers, Cohens, Gundbergs, and Sorrentos as well as Garcias and Suarezes. They know that a family name does not an ethnicity (or a religion or a race) make in the 21st century.</p>