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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it somehow ok for all these posters to say to LIE on a college application form. If you are Asian say Asian, if you are mixed use mixed, how can you lie? As a white person, heck I will just check Hispanic or black as 2 percent of the 23andme came back as other. This is unreal that people are lying on college forms to game the admissions. This must be why trump is looking into changes. [/quote]

There are no 100% racially pure people in the world.....everybody is a mix of something.  You check the box of the race you identify with.  I have loads of friends who are at best 1/8 hispanic bur raise their children entirely as white with no identification with the hispanic community but happily check latino in the application process and I think it is very deceptive.  It's like when Elizabeth Warren checks the Native American box because she is 1/32 Native American yet never lifted a finger to express that racial heritage. Colleges look the other way because there is no hard and fast standard and all they really care about is their URM stats, retention, grad rates, etc.[/quote]

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