Reply to WWYD-nationality on app? mixed DD, Black African dad/White European Mom,Passport -Mom’s Ctry

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "WWYD-nationality on app? mixed DD, Black African dad/White European Mom,Passport -Mom’s Ctry "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid claimed Hispanic heritage based on his Grandmother being an immigrant from Cuba.  Not sure what you mean by identifying...he is multi cultural, so Hispanic is one of the cultures we embrace...but we also embrace my husband's Irish/Italian side.  Does that mean we gamed the system?[/quote]

OP here. My thoughts exactly. Gaming suggests twisting the truth for a particular end which is not the case here. However I do appreciate the responses stating that black  European is at least as “beneficial”, for want of a better word,  as black African for those purposes. For what it’s worth I’m newish to the country, this is our first college application and I’m the White mom. I’ve only just, in the past few months,  begun to hear about all the criteria universities look at to assess a candidate. It’s very confusing and I am getting a great deal of advice from other parents about what my daughter should put on her application when it comes to her nationality/color, etc. In the beginning I was googling all the terms like crazy-URM, hook, etc.  As you know in Europe it’s grades only more or less.   None of these other things would matter. Not saying they should not matter but it’s just different.

So thanks for all the response. I was actually told to mention the ‘flaming’ thing :-). I was told I would get straight answers though I might get some acid too.  I must say all have been very measured in their responses.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics