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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I knew a lot of people personally who did. One kid of white South Africans said AA. One half Moroccan kid said AA. Lots of kids who had something like 1/8 heritage in Spain or Portugal said Hispanic. [/quote]

The Moroccan kid and South African kid ARE African-American. They are not, however, black. If the school wanted to know if they were black, they should have asked that. And the 1/8 heritage kid from Spain IS Hispanic. If the school wanted to know if their ancestry is from Latin America, they should ask that. The person with Portuguese heritage should not be checking off Hispanic as people from Portugal speak Portuguese not Spanish, and are, therefore, not Hispanic.[/quote]
1/8 Spanish ancestry does not make one Hispanic if they and their parents are a mix of many other non Hispanic ethnic groups and have been living in the US for the past 100 years. No. Do they have a Spanish speaking household? Then no.[/quote]

According to who???[/quote]

According to College Board, one must be 1/4 (one hispanic grandparent will accomplish this).[/quote]

My niece/nephew will probably do that.  It's funny because their one grandparent was born in South America -- but his parents immigrated there from Europe the year before he was born, and he left as a teenager.  Ethnically, they are identical to my kids.  Their parents are really rich, and the Latino grandfather was a PhD educated at American Ivies, and the mom grew up in the whitest suburb imaginable.  They did hire a Spanish-speaking nanny and sent the kids to an immersion preschool, so the kids are fully bilingual.[/quote]

Schools are looking for wealthy Hispanics, this is perfect. Checking Hispanic without obvious means to pay for school is a dime a dozen.[/quote]

They are? I thought they were looking for “first generation” (poor) Hispanics not the privileged kind. I suspect AOs can detect the “faking it” kind.[/quote]

Don’t be naive. There will be some first-gen low-income taken from development programs.  The rest are wealthy.[/quote]

And your evidence of this is?

hint: you have none.[/quote]

And the ten pages of people saying a single check box boosts chances, they have no evidence.  Look at the demographics of people actually enrolled, they are wealthy, funny how that happens.  [/quote]

Everyone thinks that checking the box gives one an advantage, ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL.  Of course, it's not going to open doors for a dunce.  But out of 20 equally qualified students, if only one had that box checked, I'm sure it gives them an edge.  colleges will have to 'activate' that edge without referencing that checkbox, because doing so would be illegal.  If the find out that the checkbox was false information later on, they have no recourse because on paper the student did not get any tangible benefit by checking that box.  See the game people can play?[/quote]

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