Posted on 10/27/2021 5:29:09 AM PDT by karpov
Every year, aspiring college students complete admissions applications, with the hopes that their grades, extracurriculars, and recommendations will lift them above the pack, and earn them acceptance at the school of their choice.
However, some college applicants are misrepresenting their race in an effort to use their desired school’s diversity efforts to gain admission, or obtain more financial aid.
Intelligent.com asked 1,250 white college applicants ages 16 and older if they lied on their application by indicating they were a racial minority.
The survey found that 34% of white Americans who’ve applied to college falsely claimed on their applications they’re a racial minority.
The number one reason why applicants faked minority status is to improve their chances of getting accepted (81%). Fifty percent also lied to benefit from minority-focused financial aid.
Men are three times as likely than women to lie about their race on a college application. Forty-eight percent of male respondents claimed to be a minority on their college application, compared to just 16% of female applicants.
Lying also varies by age groups, with 43% of people 35-44 years old, and 41% of 16-24 year-olds admitting to faking a racial minority status when applying to college.
Those rates are lower for 25-34 year-olds (31%); 45-54 year-olds (28%), and people 54 and older (13%).
Nearly half of all respondents who lied about their minority status (48%) identified themselves as Native American on their applications.
Thirteen percent claimed to be Latino, 10% claimed to be Black, and 9% claimed to be Asian or Pacific Islander.
Twice as many men as women claimed Native American heritage on their applications (54% compared to 24%). Meanwhile, one in four women (24%) claimed to be Latino. Women are also more than twice as likely as men to pretend to be Black.
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And if there are they’re dumb as rocks.
I was born a poor black child.
Exactly!
The article completely side-steps the very core question of: HOW CAN YOU TELL THAT THEY ARE "LYING?"
Without invading their privacy and requiring them to submit to a gene test, how could they possibly determine that they are lying?
Also: "Lying" implies a "bad faith" statement. But perhaps the students genuinely believed what they said.
Regards,
I know 2 brothers whose father is white and mother Filipino. The older marked he was Asian and white; the younger marked Hispanic. The older was the better student by far. The younger got the better college scholarships.
The title says it like it is a bad thing, when we should be celebrating their courage... /s
For heaven's sake: WHY NOT?
By not checking the box, you are tacitly supporting a racist system.
Remember when the inhabitants - including crowned heads - of Nazi-occupied Denmark all wore "Yellow Stars" after the Nazis demanded that Jews wear them?
Regards,
We have a Norwegian engineering professor who is head of the Latino faculty. His mother is from Latin America
Scientifically speaking, there is no such thing as race.
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True. It was basically “invented”. One could just as well try to group people by height, eye color, or having attached or detached earlobes.
According to Rachel Dolezal and Shaun “talcum x” King, it’s ok if you’re on the leftie side of the spectrum only. Notice we’ve not seen those two winners spouting off their race BS in quite a while….
They didn’t lie. It is “settled law” in the U.S. that you can identify as whatever the hell you want.
I think everyone should lie about it.
I am long pass college, but I have started filling in “Other” for race in questionnaires.
I do not get anything out of it, I just want to mess up those Critical racists.
I think everybody should do it.
That would put them out of business.
If they were born on US soil, they are, in fact, native Americans. That would not be lying.
I SHOULD have always checked the Native American box in the days before DNA testing. Based on an uncle’s stories, I always thought I was 1/16th Cherokee. (DNA shows 100% UK origin.). I bet a lot of people heard similar stories.
No telling how many schools I could have gotten accepted to.
I have been working as hispanic for quite some time.
Only a fool plays a rigged game by the rules.
High cheekbones? Check!
Family lore? Check!
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