I got accepted SCEA..ohgod I accidently put my racial ethnicity as "African American"

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>haha my friend directed me to this thread…</p>

<p>just to add in my 2 cents, I don’t really get how (if what ijoke said was true) stanford admsisions fell for it, unless admission officers really take everything students say as truth</p>

<p>cuz i mean, being an asian…it would sort of show up in ur name (or ur parents name) or somewhere in ur app that indicates ur asian right…(asian last names, not to be stereotypical since im also asian, wang, zhang, li, kim, etc. etc.). Even if ur adopted, theres really very little possibility that after the whole application, admission officers hasn’t risen a red flag, especially something as big as race…</p>

<p>okay enough rambling, haha. sry ijoke I lol’ed at ur post, cuz a lot of my friends actually joked about putting down AA as their race to get in top colleges. Also, im not stalkign or anything, but I clicked on ur public profile, and ijoke seems to be on a lot of threads that talk about how easy it is to falsify data on elite college’s applications. just saying.</p>

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<p>^^^^^^^^^^
Umm the colleges are not allowed to infer someones race from any part of the application. I think legally, they are only allowed to use the self-reported OPTIONAL race part .and that is why it follows a federally determined format (are you hispanic? regardless of your response to that… blah blah)</p>

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<p>@OP, Alex Song is an African middle fielder for FC Arsnal (Premiere League); Brenda Song is a teenager TV star, a South East Asian ancestry (I think), but then there are a ton of Song’s of Korean nationality. Did you use an American first name or a typical Korean first name? If the latter is the case, then the adcoms could easily catch the mistake. – well, didn’t realize there are this many replies/posts already. He is i Joker</p>