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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a Latina I find this whole thread offensive. If you have to ask the question, the answer is no. I have worked admissions, and we noted when people pulled crap like this. Also, you check the box with a German last name, you know every says "oh, Nazi.". I wish I were kidding!  [/quote]

+1.  I can't believe you are considering checking "Hispanic."  DW's parents are from South America and they speak Spanish fluently but they're European one generation before that and are all educated professionals with a long family history of such.  She would never check Hispanic because it's not what the box is there for.   I work in academia and also agree that an application with a  German last name checking Hispanic is likely to seriously get my derision, legal or not. And even if your last name is "Garcia" and you show up looking Giselle Bunschen or Albert Einstein (many physicists or their parents were refugees to South America who, like Einstein, fled the Nazis in Europe), I will not be impressed either.
 Don't make yourself or your children into an Elizabeth Warren style joke.    There are real students who are the first in their family to go to college or  that suffered as a result of the political upheavals in Latin America.  Admissions are looking for them to create diversity. Are they looking for you?

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