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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the data:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/577722-more-than-a-third-of-white-students-lie-about-their/
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My guess is that they mostly put Hispanic.

I thought Hispanic % was said to be pretty high at some of the colleges.

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Yeah, a friend of my son has an Hispanic mother ... whose family has been in the United States since the late 1800s. The father is a WASP who attended Columbia and HBS. Meanwhile the boy is checking the Hispanic box and applying to Harvard and Yale while my slightly-better-stats kid is focused on, like, Villanova.

It's so frustrating to see people abuse the system. I wish there was a way for colleges to distinguish (and who knows; maybe they do.)[/quote]

Why would this kid identifying an Hispanic prevent your son from applying to those schools also? If he chose to remove himself from consideration then why gripe that he is disadvantaged because of the other kid?[/quote]

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