<p>agreed, but its a proven fact that AA benefits mostly middle-class blacks and hispanics. if we want to help the downtrodden, and increase diversity, it makes much more practical sense to grant AA benefits to the economically disadvantaged instead. poor whites need help too.</p>
<p>maybe you should go into politics and try to change the country</p>
<p>id give it a poke if i was white, but im not.</p>
<p>lol! yeah, voters in general and the media don't give a care about affirmative action...it's all about outward appearances and money after all.</p>
<p>bumpity bump bump?</p>
<p>if i ran for president, i doubt i'd get many votes..everyone seems to agree with supporting israel 100%</p>
<p>aa helps rich blacks more than anyone else. You got the money of course they want you</p>
<p>Celebrian is right AA only helps the middle class b/c they can afford and actually put emphasis on education.</p>
<p>To answer the original the original poster's question - I feel that she can put down hispanic. I am 1/4 Mexican, and when I fill out forms I check "Other" and in the adjacent blank put out White/Mexican. I am not a full-blooded white person, though phenotypically I am white. Quite frankly, I see nothing wrong with doing it. I got the National Merit Hispanic Achievement Award because the cut-off is 1/4. </p>
<p>As far as living it, I am not fluent in Spanish and I live in Southern city that is majority black. But I have many relatives in South Texas (Laredo mostly, where my dad's family is from) and numerous ones in Monterrey as well, and I visit with them very often so I have had plenty of exposure to my Mexican roots. But I made clear that I look white, I talk white, and essentially I am white with Mexican tinges. I suppose what I'm trying to say is I went ahead and put down Other because it's who I am, but I did not try to present myself as an URM because I'm really not.</p>
<p>kidsampson- why arent there more honest people like you in the world?</p>
<p>ha, obviously you dont know me very well...</p>
<p>if you got the National Merit Hispanic Achievement Award i'm sure you could just put Hispanic</p>
<p>yeah i've thought about that, but the problem is that when someone hears hispanic they automatically think of a brownish kid with a funny accent, so i feel that by choosing other im better representing myself. Really i think that the whole race-college thing is a load, I'd rather get in for my own merits than get in for not being white.</p>
<p>Hey guys. Does anyone know exactly how much of a benefit being a URM is, specifically a non-puerto rican/non-mexican hispanic? I had read an article online this summer that a prof at Princeton had done some research on the subject and concluded that being hispanic was worth 185 points on one's SAT score, but it didn't specify what strain of hispanic.</p>
<p>How competive is a 1460, a 3.5, and extracurriculars teeming from one's wazoo for a plain ol' hispanic in the harvard EA pool?</p>
<p>Whenever I read anything about diversity or affirmative action they always talk about african americans and latinos as the main URMs. Does anyone know of any statistics for the number of hispanics with 1450+ SATs? I had read about there only being 192 african americans with 1450+ SATs, but I haven't heard any figures for the number of hispanics in that scoring bracket.</p>
<p>"strain of hispanic"</p>
<p>heh not so sure that would fly as politically correct</p>
<p>stanfordwannab3
Maybe you should consider looking up the definition of the word first.</p>
<p>connotations, my friend, connotations.</p>
<p>sry btw my HS's rival school's mascot is the pirate.</p>
<p>just out of curiousity, which strain are we speaking of here?</p>
<p>haha i didnt look at the dictionary but i was thinking strains of virus.</p>