Posted on 02/21/2023 9:00:38 AM PST by dennisw
A recent survey has found that 34% of its white respondents admitted to lying about being part of a racial minority to boost their chances of getting accepted into college.
Taking advantage: The survey, which questioned 1,250 white college applicants aged 16 and up, discovered that 34% of them lied in their applications, according to Intelligent.
Forty-eight percent of them falsely claimed to be of Native American descent, and about 9% of them lied about being Asian American or Pacific Islander. Around 81% of the students who lied said they did it to increase their chances of getting admitted to their preferred schools, while 50% hoped to benefit from minority-focused financial aid.
About 75% of the students who made false claims got accepted into the schools they lied to.
The survey also found that male applicants lied more about their race in their college applications (48%) than female college applicants (16%) did. However, more female respondents admitted to lying about being Black than their counterparts did at 18% and 8%, respectively.
Kristen Scatton, the managing editor at Intelligent.com, said applicants who lied to increase their chances of college admission were taking advantage of the belief that “many Americans of European descent have some Native American DNA in their bloodline.”
“However, research has shown that’s not all that common, particularly among white Americans. But applicants are banking on the fact that no college is going to ask them to provide a DNA sample to verify,” Scatton added.
Other details: Jerome A. Lucido, executive director of the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice at the University of Southern California, told Inside Higher Ed that “these students may have been admitted regardless of their deception.”
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Lucido further explained that “most colleges and universities across the nation are not highly selective, and many are taking every student who they believe can do the work.”
He also said that race “does not stand alone as a criteria” in an admission office, especially those found in colleges and universities which are supposedly “race-aware or race-conscious.”
“Any mechanistic use of race was prohibited by Supreme Court case law long ago,” he added. “Instead, race, culture and identity are viewed as inseparable from who the applicant is as a student and future community member.”
Did they lie or did they identify?
I really don’t believe this.
If you don’t vote Democrat, you ain’t bLACK. You’re white.
Easy... They check-off Native American.
Many Americans believe they’re part American Indian.
What this article admits is, colleges are racist. Pure & simple.
I was told that a long standing story that I had some American Indian in me from way back, an adopted Indian child.
Then my nephew got a DNA test. No American Indian, but a little bit of black African (he is whiter than Macaulay Culkin). My guess is that back then the lying was better to say you were American Indian instead of black.
I am part Native American. But never helped me get a job. My skill-set got me my jobs.
Gotta love that diversity horse hockey. Makes the white eyes all into minority wannabes. ROTFL. A whole crapload of Fauxcahontas Warrens. Buffalo Wing Woman. LOL.
My wife had that impression from her father's side of the family. An ancestor was an orphan named Mary Jane Pheasant. As she continued her research for DAR, she uncovered the parent of Mary Jane to be a rogue Englishman named Edward Pheasant. Edward's documentation was all over the place.
After doing the DNA sequencing, it turns out that we both have Scottish and Welsh ancestry. I have Irish/Finnish as well. She has some German ancestry. No "native American" ancestry at all.
My paternal family believed they were part Choctaw... I was disabused of that idea by ancestry DNA... not even a drop of native blood.
Didn’t humans originate in Africa? So technically it’s not lying to say you’re African American.
Golly, maybe this is a hint that we should not treat people differently based on their race?
I'm actually a for real Latin so it's time to identify as one.
I even have several hundreds of times more Native American in me than Lizzy Warren.
Geez, I'm a genuine multi cultural person of color.
I’m guessing they all did this because of “White Privlege”.
And, per Henry Louis Gates, many black families have a story about an American Indian ancestor. Then, their DNA shows they're part white with no American Indian.
It's almost like everyone wants to be part American Indian. lol
Never thought of that. I am one sixteenth black.
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