<p>ok your right dum question lol</p>
<p>You'll be fine. </p>
<p>Make sure to emphasize your ethnicity in your diversity essay. Make sure that you explain some useful experience that you have had because you are African-American, or maybe describe a time when you were racially discriminated against. You can even make it up if you want to.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>I wanted to buy some golf clubs and the cashier wouldn't sell them to me. He said whites only.</p>
<p>Something like that.</p>
<p>I don't think you should fabricate things in your essay.</p>
<p>Hahaha, see epsilon, humor is much more effective than swearing.</p>
<p>I wouldn't call it humor, and it is certainly not more effective or subtle...I'd say it is condescending and rude.</p>
<p>I think you'll get at least full-tuition. At my wealthy, 99% white school, I know only one girl who received a decent scholarship here (out of maybe 40 kids coming.) Her grandmother was Mexican, so she is Hispanic. Stats far less impressive than yours (which are very good), parents made a lot of money, and she got full-tuition.</p>
<p>I don't think it is condescending and rude, because it works.</p>
<p>I don't think you can question the fact that minorities have a huge advantage in admissions, and it is definitely the applicant's responsibility to take advantage of that fact.</p>
<p>Simply ignoring one's advantages is stupid.</p>
<p>Although I do know one hispanic kid that put down white on his application to see whether he REALLY could get in to UM or if it was his race that got him in. He got in anways, because his stats were great. This was before, when they had the points system.</p>
<p>Epsilon, taking it out on the individual URM simply because the Federal government choses to compensate URMs is not fair to that individual. In many cases, I too find it sad when a URM purposely benefits from AA even though they lived a sheltered life in a perfectly safe and afluent atmosphere. However, the OP is a 3.8 student with a 33 on the ACT. Like your Hispanic friend, she too can earn a spot at Michigan without resorting to AA.</p>
<p>True. She can even earn a full ride without AA. But why not? It seems like a good oppourtunity to one-up the competition.</p>
<p>I say put down your race and play it up. Not too much, but enough to get noticed and enough to get some money. </p>
<p>You will be fine no matter what, tho.</p>
<p>Is there a specific scholarship that will give full tuition to minorities? I couldn't find any on the university's site.</p>
<p>I don't think so, but some have preference given to minorities.</p>
<p>Outside funding is possible too.</p>
<p>I had a friend (girl) who was black, I think got in the low 30s for ACT and had a 3.89. She got a full ride to Michigan, but turned it down for Dartmouth. She also had a full ride to Dartmouth because of the Gates Millenium Scholarship (?). In-state too.</p>
<p>Epsilon, I agree that URMs should check the box. I just don't think it is necessary to "play it up"! </p>
<p>AWolves, your friend should have gone to Michigan. Dartmouth is boring! Hehe!!! To each his own I guess.</p>
<p>I forgot...another friend of mine had a Native American grandmother. She got full-tuition as well, but is going to Hope College.</p>
<p>epsilon, although your hispanic friend is putting himself at a disadvantage by saying he's white, wouldn't it still be considered fraud? It's really no different from a white person saying he's Native American, even though, in this case, he is cheating to improve his chances. I just thought I would put that out there, because any other form of application fraud could risk being expelled.</p>
<p>Fraud is a strong word. In this case, the applicant (an URM), did not jeoperdize anybody else's chances or, unfairly help his own chances by not sayiung he was Hispanic. I doubt his action can be interpreted as fraudulent.</p>
<p>Actually, he was half polish and half hispanic.</p>
<p>I can't remember if he simply didn't disclose this information, or if he put down white.</p>