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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Technically my kids could have checked “Hispanic”.
“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.”
That lying in the past was probably correct with many of us with so called Native American ancestors.
However, apparently many of our so called Native American ancestors had zero DNA showing Native American genes. In particular those also with documented Euro ancestry.
A sibling and I supposedly have zero Native American DNA.
Yet according to Ancestry.com we have many great/great/great Native American grandparents based on birth certificates, wedding data and obit data.
Maybe there was a reason there were so called civilized Native American tribes.
Did they descend from Euro ancestors?
Yet we have African DNA traceable to 1%.
“Forty-eight percent of them falsely claimed to be of Native American descent”
It’s not false if their parents were born in America. They are descended from native Americans. It’s not their fault that liberals chose to use to a silly ambiguous term rather than the clear and precise “American Indian”.
My kids’ grandmother is from Algeria. So are my kids African-American?
They are the smart ones.
Caryn Elaine Johnson adopted the name Whoopi Goldberg to sound Jewish, and made millions of dollars.
My 95-year-old FIL, now in memory care, used to tell the legend of there being a full-blooded Cherokee somewhere in his ancestry in the mid-late 1800’s. When my wife got her ancestry.com DNA analysis it suggests that there is no native American lineage. We mention this to him and he says “Well, I don’t know about you, but I have Cherokee ancestry!”
I really do not know why this topic could surprise anyone. You create an incentive for certain behavior, and lo! that behavior increases!
The reason I remembered this story is that my kids (who could check off multiple boxes honestly) always left that section blank on every application. One had very high scores. Ticks me off that other students were checking off boxes fraudulently while mine were leaving theirs blank.
I list Native American when asked, since I was born here.
Elizabeth Warren says all you need are high cheekbones.
My family has a few stories that don’t add up, but sometimes family stories are repeated so often that they’re accepted as fact.
That is what they all say.
I am, according to Ancestry = 8%
But I did not know this when I went to college in 1963.
However I check Native American evert chance I get and I believe everyone should do the same.
My ancestors have been here since the American revolution so if I put down native American on anything is ain’t a lie.
I knew a guy who got a scholarship that required a foreign language proficiency. He put down Australian.
Yellow Cake.
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Thanks boss! I posted your link/ material so that FReepers could run with it. And enlighten us all.
My Great great great grandfather’s brother was murdered by Native Americans in the early 1840s. Does that get me anything?
(Actually it did. He invented a double shot musket that was briefly used in the civil war. He invented it because his brother could have used two shots when he was attacked. His name was John Parker Lindsay. His invention sucked…but it lead to other stuff.)
BS
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