<p>how, im white, a slight dan cuz im meditereanen, how will they know im not mexican or w.e i dont understand how will they ever know. i could say im native american and piggy on thier success lol</p>
<p>Most universities have their applications contractually-bound, meaning your action of submitting the application contracts you to the gaurantee that your application is entirely truthful and accurate. Although I've heard some universities will actually send admission officers to check on the status of some of their applicants to make sure their URM statements are true.</p>
<p>'Native American' is something you'll want to be careful about. Sometimes they'll ask you to trace it or provide actual documents from the tribe which verify your blood. If it turns out that you're blatently lying, very bad things will happen.</p>
<p>Also, at least at my school, my transcript included my race on it (along with my home address, home phone, social security number etc). And if the admissions officer has any doubt he can call up your guidance counselor and ask them</p>
<p>Usually when you register for school you have your race with your other info...colleges could probably access it pretty easily I think. I know for IB tests when we have to put down ethnicity or something on the registration form our coordinator says you ahve to put down what your parents registered at school as, not what you want. If you want it to be something else, you have to get it cahgned on your school record. If the IBO can check that out easily (and they aren't even doing anything with race as a factor really except to gather data maybe) then I'm sure a college could. I would make sure that your race matchs what you register at your school as, or put down undeclared or something.</p>
<p>also, I dont know if anyone else mentioned this, but if you put down a race on the Act/Sat (I dunno about sat, but I would assume they do too), the school can look for conflicting answers on that since they ask about race.</p>