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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless there is an in person interview, the schools won't know you before the admission decision. [/quote]

A lot of schools are getting savvy and compare your declared ethnicity with your student activities and social media. A person who says they are Latina, belonged to the Hispanic Student Alliance, interned at CASA de Maryland, and has at least some SM posts about being Latina is more credible than the one who claims a Mexican grandmother, but has no prior connections to the Hispanic community. When I taught HS, we saw some white families attempt to suddenly claim Native American ancestry so we counter-balanced by creating after school clubs and documentable community connections for our Native, AA, and Latinx students.[/quote]
Sorry, but no. My kid, who is 100% Latina, raised by two Colombians (aka my husband and I, who immigrated here as young adults) should not have to join certain clubs or post about being Colombia/Latina on Facebook (WTF would that even entail?!) just to "prove" she is, in fact, Latina to some admissions committees. That's just absurd. [/quote]
Because a lot of people in these Latin American countries are as white and European as any white person in this country. It's just that their Spanish, German, or Italian ancestors first settled in Latin America, while some of ours came directly to the US. Why should they get rewarded for this? The Hispanic designation has become a joke in this regard because it is based on the common Spanish language and therefore includes a lot of lily white people. I worked with a blonde blue eyed lady who claimed that she was Hispanic because her German relatives settled in Cuba. What a joke!
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