What happen if.......

<p>What will happen if you accidently checked the Africian/American race box?? Most schoold don't ask for your picture right?</p>

<p>You sign your name stating that you have reviewed all the information, and it is, to the best of your knowledge accurate. So, they could probably dismiss your app for falsifying information.</p>

<p>well...they normally see your parents names/race i think =&lt;/p>

<p>ex. white + white = black</p>

<p>adcom: "***"</p>

<p>'accidentally'</p>

<p>yea ok</p>

<p>try it and see....you'll definitely learn from your "mistake".</p>

<p>I would think they'd throw out your app, but if you caught the mistake and sent them a letter you might be able to pull a few strings. However, colleges don't want people who make mistakes like that.</p>

<p>what if your last name doesn't really reveal anything about your race and you never have an interview at like stanford for instance</p>

<p>RootBearCeaser, what if you're adopted? My counsins have white parents, so they're white+white=chinese and white+white=vietnamese. They have their parent's anglo american names, too. But they're not white.</p>

<p>then you will have denied minorities the few true opportunities to rise in the social hierarchy in this still segregated country for your own selfish goals.</p>

<p>Well, that won't start a flame war.</p>

<p>Let say if you get in to UCLA and or Yale etc, and you don't show your face till 1st day of school....then what would happen....hahaha....me opening a can of worm here.</p>

<p>Case of reverse discrimination.......wahahaha.........</p>

<p>Your interviewer would probably notice. And odds are someone a teacher or GC would be like 'Um..he's not black...'</p>

<p>You could--and probably would--get into serious hot water, especially if this is an actual strategy (and not just an accident). First of all, it's pretty damn hard to accidentally do such a thing--it's not like you fill in a code that corresponds to a race and you just copied the wrong code. No. You check (either physically, with a pen, or electronically, with your cursor) a box that is RIGHT NEXT to your race. I guess it is within the realm of possibility that you could just accidentally click the mouse while you were scrolling down the page and select the wrong race, but being that the bubbles are pretty small, the chances of that happening seem pretty tiny to me. But that doesn't matter, because you should proofread the hell out of your app, and to not only make that mistake but to then miss it while proofreading, seems to be nearly beyond the scopes of possibility. </p>

<p>Compound that with the fact that it is highly likely that a liar would be outed in some way before the application went through--you can avoid an interview, but you can't control what one of your recommendations says about you. And then there's the issue that at some point in time, a college will require documentation that shows your actual race--a physical once you've been enrolled, for example. Is it possible that someone could get away with lying? Sure. But it's obviously hugely unethical, not that anyone who would seriously consider doing it would care about why I think. Bottomline? Proofread your application, and try not to be a total sleaze in life!</p>

<p>prettyckitty - good point </p>

<p>im generallizing of course</p>

<p>Right. But I wonder what they do with kids who are in that situation, or who are minorities but raised by white or Asian parents, and have their last names, but don't do interviews or pictures.</p>

<p>I would also guess that there would be other indications of race in other parts of the app. does the college board or ACT company ask for race anywhere on the test sheet or registration? What about school records? FA forms? I know that not all these indicate race -- but it wouldn' surprise me if some did.</p>

<p>Also -- if you are a high stats kids who marked African-American what are you going to do when you are invited to a minorities weekend? contacted by the minority recruiting liason?</p>