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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To what extent will a university verify the race of an applicant? Where do they draw the line? If you are 50% white and you identify as being white, can you select AA?[/quote]

Some one who has one white parent and one black parent but identifies as white is unlikely to identify as AA for the purposes of applying to college. The mental gymnastic that person went through for 17 years...[/quote]
You’d be surprised. Kids want to get into college. Being AA helps a lot with that especially around here. There are four 4.0, 1600 kids. Three are white. One identifies as white and looks white but has some black ancestry and puts black on the paper. Guess who gets in? Not making any moral judgement, it’s just the game. [/quote]

You only think that because you don’t know any half-black kids who desperately want to be white. Unfortunately I do. They are not going to accept an AA designation mentally and socially just for college.[/quote]

Well I know white kids who've identified as native american and hispanic to get in. The designation is just for the application. The college doesn't care what you do or like like once you're on campus. So i'm sure that half black kids have used their AA ancestry for their advantage, as they should.

Interesting that you think a half black kid would be traumatized over checking the AA box on an app. [/quote]

Not half-black kids in general, but the half-black ones who claim they are white.

We have them in my family sadly. after a bad divorce and some health setbacks my relative left her kids with her former MIL for three years. All four kids identify as white, have no black friends, don’t want her to come to school or post photos of them on social media. They are early to late teens now. Being “white” is a huge investment for them. They are not going to risk that by checking a box on a college application.[/quote]

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