<p>well mix 3 ml of orange juice in 97 ml of milk. you’ll get the result. </p>
<p>so yeah she’s not lying >:) </p>
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<p>This alone indicates that Jesus and karma will not even waste their time getting involved in this, as there is no morality at play anywhere. </p>
<p>Colleges will play the same superficial, substance-free game - one will tell the OP “No” because it has enough hispanic applicants, and another college will say “Yes” because it boosts its reporting and recruitment data to the government. Therefore, Jesus and karma have zero consistent standards upon which to judge right and wrong, and I predict they have already taken a pass on this nonsense. </p>
<p>And, I suspect the OP has zero to worry about re a college coming after her. Yeah, like a college wants to be in the politically incorrect position of saying someone is not who he says he is. In fact, I suspect the colleges will be all embracing, just like Harvard with Elizabeth Warren.</p>
<p>I reach this conclusion that colleges will embrace the OP regardless because when asked at information session at a school ranked in the top 10 in the country, the adcom speaking explicitly said put that what you view yourself as being. It was like gender - put down what you think you are. So what if you are 100% genetically and physically female, if you feel and identify as male then let us know, Well, there you go - percentages are not even part of the equation for colleges. It is straight up self-reporting and self-reflection. </p>
<p>In short, everyone (colleges and posters on this thread) is just making stuff up about percentages, just as they are blaming the OP of doing. Oh, and I agree Jesus does not work in college adcom offices because he does not judge people by superficial appearances. Jesus judges by content of character; he leaves the superficial and the immoral judging by skin color to us humans. </p>
<p>I do question why colleges don’t provide more guidance on what constitutes “Hispanic”. </p>
<p>Although I think colleges do sincerely want to give a leg up to socio-economically disadvantaged applicants of indigenous South American races, I suspect colleges deliberately do NOT define the Hispanic criteria because they really want to maximize the number of URM students in a cynical ploy to augment their Diversity figures.</p>
<p>OP’s friend who is “3%or 4” percent Hispanic (of course, impossible numbers because a genetic % has to be an exponential power of -2) is unlikely to be challenged for ticking the Hispanic box, unless she is competing for a Hispanic-only scholarship. If all this girls wants is admission, I believe the school will warmly embrace her ersatz “hispanic-ness” to be one number closer to its NUMERICAL diversity goals.</p>
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<p>Therefore, in essence, the whole darn thing is fabricated. Something many people have caught on to (well, not that hard to notice).</p>
<p>@Absentions Good golly, is it really that bad, so much so that it can “boost” your SAT by ~200 points?
This whole Affirmative Action thing is starting to seem more and more to just be arbitrary racism. </p>
<p>@BurgerMan1 - yes, it can be worth hundreds of points. Here is a report detailing admissions figures by race in 2005, before, I believe Michigan was prohibited from using race in admissions decisions:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/548/UM_UGRAD_final.pdf”>http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/548/UM_UGRAD_final.pdf</a></p>
<p>Haha GMT, it was late and my funny radar must have been off!</p>
<p>All the people in this thread defending this child are racist and hopeless</p>
<p>Nobody is defending anybody. College admission officers aren’t saints. They will be happy to add “diversity” saying our class had 18 types ofpeople. some of which were 1/32th black.</p>
<p>No college does that… The only kids that bubble in black when they’re not are dishonest non black students. That’s not the college’s fault? I’d expect people to be decent human beings and be honest and get in by their own merit. If you identify as black you are black. Even someone 1/32 black could possibly identify as black. </p>
<p>I don’t know were some kids get the idea there is a certain percentage you have to be. There is no rule of one grandparent. And some of you need to check the freaking facts, not repeat speculations you heard. Some of you get so outraged by what you think is gaming, without knowing whether it is or not.</p>
<p>The bottom line is this: if you check Hispanic and nothing in your app seems to reflect any connection to the culture, community, (and a few other key things I will purposely omit,) then forget any real pull. Ok, that’s for highly selective colleges. </p>
<p>And in admissions, 2005 is practically an ice age ago. </p>
<p>@lookingforward
Not really, colleges just want to put up higher numbers of diversity, that’s the pull, not adding more to the hispanic culture. That’s inconsequential for them. </p>
<p>Anaconda, I know whereof I speak. CC thinks it’s just about reporting numbers or US News or all sorts of other distractions. It’s why I suggest kids do a little legwork, not just go with what a forum tends to say. And I did say, for highly selective.</p>
<p>@Jellybae,
Then why do u object to OP’s 1/32 hispanic friend identifying as hispanic? </p>
<p>@theanaconda and @Jojo4975, just as an FYI: Lookingforward works in the Admissions Office of a well known college, so I think s(he) understands the thought process of AO’s and the admissions process better than anyone on CC. They did not say “I know whereof I speak” for nothing.</p>
<p>maybe i just went with what the forum said, and I guess the forum’s not always correct. my apologies. Also, @lookingforward, do adcom’s assume one person’s ethnicity if they don’t check the box? My name would easily identify me as Asian so that’s why i’m wondering. </p>
<p>@GMTplus7 did you… Did you even read op’s post??? </p>
<p>“She said she put it down on her sat and common app that she’s Hispanic cause she needs an advantage”</p>
<p>She has never identified as Hispanic in her entire life she’s putting it down to get an “advantage”. That is literal trash.</p>
<p>I think any additional discussion can take place in the Race and College Admission thread at the top of this forum.</p>