Anonymous wrote:Alabama is looking more attractive to many.

Anonymous wrote:Shouldn't you be a doctor by now?

I got my Ph.D. in my mid-twenties and lectured at JHU last year.

JHU has Bloomberg's money for financial aid, and has eliminated legacy preferences. But 16% White students and 16% Black students? Compare that to Caltech at 41% and 7% respectively; it doesn't make sense.

https://apply.jhu.edu/life-at-hopkins/diversity-inclusion-at-hopkins/
https://registrar.caltech.edu/records/enrollment-statistics

JHU will have a reputation for workaholic Asian-American pre-med majors and diversity-admissions. That is not the road to prestige. Baltimore already has a bad reputation for crime and race relations. Good White upper-middle-class donut-hole students will stop applying to JHU.

Anonymous wrote:For the people in the back, not all Hispanic/Latino people have indigenous features. We come in many “shades”. Walking around campus and not seeing many “stereotypical” Latino students, does not mean there really aren’t a lot of them there.

But the only thing you share is a language.

Your family has benefited from colonization, slavery, feudal plantations, and a racist class system in your home country for however long they were there, be it 20 years or 400.

Why should you get priority admission over your landscaper from El Salvador's kids? They're indigenous to the Americas. Their family has suffered centuries of oppression and displacement--up to the present day.

You're not the same.

I'm all for overturning the simplistic definitions of race and culture we use, definitions that are gamed by the UMC just as everything else is. I would like to see emphasis be placed on first generation, and not on divisive arguments about race that create monolithic definitions based on skin tone that have no relation to history or heredity.

Anonymous wrote:That’s because at least 1/3 white people lie in their college applications about their race.

That part bothers me less than their white kids going on about how they're not colonizers. Your family is from South America and you're white? Um...

I think the "colonizer" narrative is simplistic and overblown, but sadly college campuses are a hotbed right now of righteousness by skin color. It's toxic and terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:Our families are Italian by way of Argentina, circa 1940. Then US circa 1980. We always check the Hispanic box. It has as served us very will thus far.

Argentinians are the worst

Total cheats, frauds and charlatans

The PP’s family lived in Argentina for 2 generations. They were born there, spoke the language, the food and culture became mixed with their Italian heritage. How are they not Hispanic? I mean, if you are going to consider race and ethnicity, surely this counts.

My friend's family has lived in the UK for 2 generations. They were born there, speak the language, and the food and culture became so mixed with their Sikh heritage that they changed religions, dislike curry, and go to Ascot every year. How are they not British? I mean, if are going to consider this definition to define race and ethnicity, surely this counts.

My friends' kids, who went to British IB school in the Middle East, who have their own ponies, and always fly first class, will also, due to their American mother, have a better shot at getting into HYP than your kids, by virtue of how they look.

I have another friend whose family has been in the US for ten generations. Much like my fault. This is their language, their history, and their culture. But their high school doesn't have the resources to get them into a good college, their family doesn't have the background to know how to navigate admissions, and they will probably end up taking out loans to go to some predatory for-profit school that will teach them nothing.

And yet they stand at the top in the world’s most popular sport. Cope and seethe.

Anonymous wrote:Our families are Italian by way of Argentina, circa 1940. Then US circa 1980. We always check the Hispanic box. It has as served us very will thus far.

In Argentina you would be white. In 1920s US, you would be not. Technically, you're not Hispanic at all. But you know that.

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Anonymous wrote:Our families are Italian by way of Argentina, circa 1940. Then US circa 1980. We always check the Hispanic box. It has as served us very will thus far.

Argentinians are the worst

Total cheats, frauds and charlatans

The PP’s family lived in Argentina for 2 generations. They were born there, spoke the language, the food and culture became mixed with their Italian heritage. How are they not Hispanic? I mean, if you are going to consider race and ethnicity, surely this counts.

No one likes Argentinians

-not other South Americans

- North Americans think you guys are fakes

- The global community thinks you are basket cases

- British think you are soft

No country has a bigger gap between self perceived standing and reality

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Anonymous wrote:Our families are Italian by way of Argentina, circa 1940. Then US circa 1980. We always check the Hispanic box. It has as served us very will thus far.

My son’s friend is the same. Italian but from Argentina. He looks totally white, blond hair, etc. They also check Hispanic.

So by that logic the descendants of the Nazis that escaped to Argentina could check that box as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Our families are Italian by way of Argentina, circa 1940. Then US circa 1980. We always check the Hispanic box. It has as served us very will thus far.

Argentinians are the worst

Total cheats, frauds and charlatans

The PP’s family lived in Argentina for 2 generations. They were born there, spoke the language, the food and culture became mixed with their Italian heritage. How are they not Hispanic? I mean, if you are going to consider race and ethnicity, surely this counts.

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Anonymous wrote:At 74% white, Alabama is looking more attractive to many.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxxJRbiwgcQ

We are waiting to hear about your JHU grades. Shouldn't you be a doctor by now?

😂

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Anonymous wrote:Merit based.

Respect JHU.

Nope. They actively discriminate against whites at 18% and they aren’t shy about saying it. Condition of Bloomberg’s $.

You have more Hispanics and African Americans, particularly when looking at national demographics.

+1

Being white and MC-UMC is a major disadvantage.

That’s because at least 1/3 white people lie in their college applications about their race.

Anonymous wrote:Our families are Italian by way of Argentina, circa 1940. Then US circa 1980. We always check the Hispanic box. It has as served us very will thus far.

Argentinians are the worst

Total cheats, frauds and charlatans

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated a few years ago. My name is actually Italian but a lot of people think it is Hispanic. I checked Hispanic on the application. No one ever "investigated" me.

So you lied to get a perceived advantage because you weren't confident of your own record and ability to make a strong case for your fit to major?

So how were your JHU grades?

I hope you're not my doctor or personal wealth advisor or not even real at all (under-bridge-dweller).

But you're ok with a personal wealth adviser who did need to play the card because otherwise they wouldn't have had a shot? What's the difference? It's not a perceived advantage if it works.

My point is that if you are real and actually checked a box as a lie then you would be a thin-skinned, sleazy person who only looks out for himself. I wouldn't trust you not to churn my portfolio or steal from me as an investment advisor. And I would question whether you would overrecommend procedures and bill fairly as a doctor. If you are real, I've met people like you and I don't want you handling my business. I'll take it to someone ethical and trustworthy who outcompeted you without compromising. Risk factors in even without emotions. Liars are high-risk people to be around. That's why society judges them harshly when exposed.

If you need to check a box you are already a pathetic loser. You don't have the chops to compete without it and you know it. You have to live with the shame of knowing you weren't good enough.

Anonymous wrote:Our families are Italian by way of Argentina, circa 1940. Then US circa 1980. We always check the Hispanic box. It has as served us very will thus far.

My son’s friend is the same. Italian but from Argentina. He looks totally white, blond hair, etc. They also check Hispanic.