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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It definitely happens. Back when I was applying to college in the early 2000s I had a good friend who had a set of grandparents who immigrated to Argentina from Europe during WWII and then moved to the US about 15 years later. My friend claimed on her college applications that she was Latino even though she knew her grandparents stint in Argentina hardly made her Latino. I think it may happen more with people who feel some tangential claim to a different race/ethnicity, like my friend. Look at Hilaria Baldwin. She speaks with a Spanish accent and she grew up in Boston and was educated at private schools in Massachusetts, all of her children have Spanish names, she pretended on television to forget the word cucumber and then said "how you say?" I mean... It's absurd, but it happens. [/quote]

Report them anonymously to admissions.  Done and done.

Admissions won't follow up with absuridities, but they will follow up with certain things. [/quote]

Also report 50% black people who claim to be black.[/quote]

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