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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the previous poster who emailed the UVA admissions office to find out if my kids having a Spanish mother meant they could be Hispanic. Nobody can know for sure whether their Hispanic status helped their applications. It’s easy to imagine that would depend on how desperate the school was to increase its Hispanic %. Also conceivable that some admissions offices would consider it to be irrelevant.

We felt justified in claiming a connection to Spain, as the kids spoke fluent Spanish, preferred Spanish food, & spent every summer in Spain with relatives. But the opportunity was/is certainly there for people to claim to be Hispanic even with the faintest connections with Spain. If they claim to “identify” as Spanish, that’s enough to satisfy the letter of the law. We thought that was a ridiculously low bar at the time, & now that that standard also allows people to change genders, and even species, it seems even more questionable. Subjective reality is trumping objective reality.

Also, it seems so arbitrary that of all the languages on the planet, the only one which plays a big role in qualifying you for widespread special treatment in the US is Spanish.[/quote]

THIS BLOWS MY MIND????? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE if you had an Italian mother and spent every summer in Italy with your Italian relatives.

When did European countries/nationalities become a URM?????  [/quote]

Goodness. Stop hyperventilating. You are going to pass out. If this is actually blowing your mind, you’ve clearly led a shockingly safe and protected life. Breathe.

White Hispanic is not getting an admissions advantage. Certainly not now, but also rarely in the past (I can’t speak for all schools). The stats typically break those out.

Signed,
Used to work in admissions [/quote]

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