<p>hey guys... my friend *#$% checked american Indian/ Pacific Islander as her minority... what are your thougts on that.. shes white heheheh what would a college do when they find out shes white? Oh and she applied to state schools some privates.. no ivys..</p>
<p>she should call and say shes not a minority. shes never faced discrimination or prejudice based on her physical features. i think the point of having that is to identify yourself and to get a general idea of how life is</p>
<p>LOL, vision. </p>
<p>I'm Cherokee. My relatives grew up on reservations. But tbh, this is 2007 and I have not once in my life been discriminated against past making tasteless alcoholic jokes about MYSELF :p ...thinking it's actually true that your race put you down THAT much in this day in age is ridiculous. It's just about how the college wants to look. Check the boxes if by any stretch you can identify yourself as a URM, but as we've seen in Michigan, it probably won't help you much longer.</p>
<p>dc4lins: that is horrible advice. if she is white, she is white. end of story. she lied and can have her admission rescinded at any college which chooses to accept her if they find out that she lied. visions is right, the point of the ethnicity box, whether it fulfills its task or no, is to promote a diverse, well-rounded student body; she could have chosen simply not to check any box.</p>
<p>There's a good chance that the privates may rescind her admission offer because she lied. This could happen even after she goes to a private university. College degrees even have been rescinded for this sort of thing.</p>
<p>The colleges also may check with her GC to ask about her ethnicity. When they learn that she lied, they may not admit her. </p>
<p>There's a good chance that wherever she goes to college, she'll be embarassed and ashamed after she learns that her name was passed on to the minority affairs office, the campus groups for Native Americans, etc., and she'll get invitations to events for URMs, andthe URMs also will know who she is and that she lied. They probably will not treat her kindly.</p>
<p>Some of the administration also will know that she lied. At public colleges that probably will not cause her admission to be rescinded because they are very stats driven, however, her admissions could be rescinded at private colleges, and she could get a reputation as being unethical and that could hurt her in a variety of ways. It's amazing how word spreads about things like that.</p>
<p>If she manages to avoid the direct negative consequences, she'll always wonder if she truly deserved to get into whatever college admissions she obtains.</p>
<p>Cooper, I was making a general statement, not saying it was neccessarily okay for this particular girl to mark indian. I said IF YOU BY ANY STRETCH CAN mark an ethnicity you should, but it doesn't sound like this girl can...she's all white.</p>