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"Carol T. Christ, the university chancellor, who is White, has pushed several years for UC-Berkeley to secure a federal designation as a Hispanic-serving institution. That would help the university qualify for certain federal funding, but it would also mark a demographic milestone.

To accomplish that, [b]one key benchmark would be for 25 percent of its students to identify as Latino or Hispanic.[/b] “We think we’re going to make it,” Christ said."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/11/27/uc-berkeley-admissions-race-diversity/

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Does that include "white hispanic"?  IMO, that's cheating.  The point of the Hispanic serving institution is not about helping white Hispanics, but the brown ones who tend to be lower income and more discriminated against in society.[/quote]
To clarify, Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. In the Common App, the ethnicity question is separate from race. The questions and responses are based on federal reporting requirements for colleges. Most Hispanics in the US, even "brown" ones, choose white for the race question as there is no option for Mestizo.[/quote]

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