DC’s friend lied on their college app
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Anonymous
Had your parents relocated to another part of the country, away from the nation, or they were just never really connected? Childhood friend's family was fairly connected, even though they had moved ~200 miles away as young kids. Nation recognized by USG in late '70s. Their dad now deceased, but mom has retired back in the community where they have built senior housing from gaming proceeds. They spend every summer there and guessing at least two of the now middle aged children may retire there in the coming years. |
Anonymous
That sounds nice that they can go back! We have no connection to any nation, and I would never say that I’m Native American. I might even be less than 1/16! I don’t know. I doubt it’s anymore than most Americans? I only found out when assigned to do a report in elementary school. My dad must have suggested I call my grandmother to ask. She was the family historian. She identified more as Scottish than anything else. But we are all mishmashes, who turn very dark in the summer. |
Anonymous
OP, you should report this to the Ivy. This the only way to stop this kind of fraud. |
Anonymous
Wait, how are they going to prove these allegations. This is silly. Submitting a self-written essay is also on the honor system. If you have solid grades and tests, however, you will be fine. |
Anonymous
Oh my God. Some well known libertarian wrote an op-Ed that was reprinted on the Newsweek website does not mean anything. Besides it still doesn’t support the original statement. Harvard early this year was 26% Asian. Did they all discover planets? |
Anonymous
Yes, I knew something Asian kids from a STEM magnet HS are studying women study, gender study, or whatever most fashionable fields in a T5 school. Good students nut not top 20% in their class. Most of other Asian kids with same or better stats are in top 25 or state schools now. |
Anonymous
Ok…. But her father, who yes was born in Argentina, had both of his parents (married in post ww2 Europe) emigrate to Argentina. They are ethnic Germans (not Jewish so no Holocaust story there). Does a 20 year layover in Argentina make a white European genetic lineage Hispanic? |
Anonymous
Do you know how many Asian kids are at Ivy League schools and equivalent studying whatever it is they want? This is just white people trying to manufacture a problem to keep Asians from noticing that the admitted students with the lowest scores are white athletes. |
Anonymous
You realize that at any of the top 5 schools you can change your major simply by filling out a form. The implication that they somehow had to declare a specific field of study to get admitted and then are stuck in it forever just demonstrates what a BS story you’re peddling. |
Anonymous
| Maybe they used an egg or sperm donor? |
Anonymous
Yes. Hispanic is not a racial group. It describes people who come from Spanish-speaking countries. Argentina is a Spanish-speaking country. These labels are imperfect from a college admissions perspective, but this person is Hispanic. |
Anonymous
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What about people with ancestry from the Iberian peninsula? How is that any different from white European? Why should people with Spanish ancestry be prioritized over people with Italian ancestry, for instance?
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Anonymous
I’m wondering whether my nephew will or should get Latino preference. His great-grandfather immigrated to Argentina after wwii in the 1950s. His grandfather was born there but came to the US as a teen, married here, and has lived in a rich white suburb his whole life. Married a white, non-Latino American. So my nephew has 1/4 of his ancestry that is European that stopped by South America for less than 15 years. Latino? |
Anonymous
You are getting at the problem of using race or ethnicity as a proxy for low income in college admissions. Your nephew can claim to be Hispanic (from a Spanish-speaking country) and Latino (from a country in Latin America.) He is only 1/4 Hispanic or Latino, but that is usually enough to make the claim. Whether or not colleges should use this information to make distinctions is a different question. |
Anonymous
You're going to use The Daily Mail as a reliable source....? That simply says you don't even know what a reliable source really is. Anyway, I didn't use the term lying - you did. I accused of behaving badly and repeating mean-spirited gossip about a situation you clearly don't know about. You also don't know about genetics and how they work. That white-passing kid may not be as white as you think. I know plenty of people with various backgrounds that you would assume are lily white, but they are not. Genetics.. learn about them. Also: - Why is this your business? - Why do you think it's okay to gossip about a teenager on a public forum? - Did you actually see the application that was submitted? - Were you present for the admissions meetings to decide on the merits of the application? - Did you confirm that the college did not use the software referenced below to determine the authenticity of the tribal number? - Have you done a deep dive into his heritage to know the exact details of his family history beyond your assumptions based on looks? Unless you can answer yes to any of those questions above then you are nothing but a mean-spirited parent who has nothing better to do than put others down. Grow up and concentrate on your own kid. |