I know someone who got a minority scholarship to a state university because her last name ended in -ez though she couldn’t speak a word of Spanish and you wouldn’t have been able to pick her out of a line-up as the sole Latina. In the lab I worked as a post-doc there was a grad student who was there on a minority scholarship. His last named ended with an -o. I wasn’t sure, though, whether it (the minority scholarship)was because someone in his ancestry was Hispanic/Latin or because he was gay. In that same lab, the PI (principal investigator) had an African post-doc coming in from England classed as a minority so he could get minority funding (meaning that he would have to spend less for the guy out of his own funds). It was all a total freaking scam.
Long time ago, when filling out form for PSAT (I think) i missed little circle for caucasian. Instead filled in Puerto Rican.
I received at least 30 -40 applications a week for colleges.
When they found out was a mistake there were no openings.
You mean like having Washington State in the Eastern NCAA playoffs? Goes to prove that, in order to really break the rules, somebody has to make some first.