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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We'll see what happens when they are ready to apply to college. The benefits of checking a URM box are huge for admission.

And colleges don't chase down admitted to students to confirm racial background. They don't really care as long as they can report that they have a certain percentage of different demographics. [/quote]

What you just typed is incorrect.  Adcoms do care, and they have ways of knowing and experience.  Guidance counselors communicate also.  I am not saying no one ever successfully cheats, but it is somewhere between uncommon and extremely rare.

Also, the admitted kids eventually get to the campus and meet people you know.  Like the admissions officers that admitted them.  They’ll bounce a kid caught lying about this in a heartbeat.[/quote]

You know this how? How many college students ever interface with the admissions office once they're on campus. You are plainly incorrect.

Among multiple examples we've seen, one family had multiple kids manipulate this system which, while technically legit, clearly violated the spirit of the policy and the college did not care. [/quote]

No, a$$hole, I am not.  I have one kid at an ivy and another at a NESCAC.  Ivy kid met his admissions officer on accepted students day and talked about his essay and NESCAC kid the same and sees him on campus all the time and they are friendly (admittedly a small school).  Plus you know students have these things called "files" that have "data' that administration can see.

I tell you what.  Don't take my word for it (even though I am correct).  Call any admissions officer at any competitive school and ask them if they think a kid doing this will get caught and why.  Then come back here and report.

You won't.

As for the kids you've "seen", how do you know they were accepted as URMs?  Did you see their applications?  Do you know their stats?  You are a liar.[/quote]

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