Re: Lying about ethnicity.

"Kath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Shaun Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > You don't think that a college would withdraw an acceptance if an
> > applicant was found not to be of the claimed ethnicity?
> 
> How would the school determine this?  There are Black and Hispanic people
> who look and act more caucasion than I do.  Asking a student to verify
> his/her claimed ethnicity would seem ripe for some kind of discrimination
> claim.  In fact, I wonder how many students have lied about their ethnicity
> on college applications.  I'm sure it's rampant.


My post about this seems to have gotten lost, so I will try again. 

Right. No one can determine this, so it is easy to fake it. No lying
necessary. For activities, just start a black power club at your
school. Write an essay about celebrating Kwanzza with your family. For
ethnicity, decline to state. Admission officers will assume you are
African-American or partly African-American. Have to start before
senior year to make this truthful, though.

Sal