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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This has happened to others who can prove their American Indian ancestry through records. When you go back several generations, you can have ancestors whom you inherited no DNA from (but you wouldn’t exist if they had not existed and had children). Plus the DNA ethnic analyses by the DNA companies are not infallible—I have wildly different estimates from different companies (and supposed ancestry from unbelievable places). Also, very small percentages of a particular ethnic or racial origin are not reliable...they could be zero.
I've seen on the 1920 US census some immigrants from Austria-Hungary putting down "Austrian" for the language spoken at home when they were children. A census official then struck out "Austrian" and wrote "German." The immigrants did not speak German.
This is a nice feel good story. White kids are bending this affirmative action bull shiite around and slamming it up the the ashes of the White liberal phonies that run these schools.
As a retired conservative college professor this warms my heart.
During WWII, while his country was occupied by the Nazis, King Christian X of Denmark wore a Star of David. This was to encourage all Danes to do so and, so, to prevent the Nazis from segregating Jews from Christian and then persecuting the Jews.
Now we have to do such a thing in our country.
Don’t make any mistake about who are the Nazis among us.
My neighbors wife said she had a little Indian in her. But it was only when her husband was out of town!
I am not saying you are wrong, but it is very rare that anybody admits they benefited from affirmative action. I can’t think of anyone personally.
I’m a native american.
I was born here.
Thanks.
I totally agree with your perspective.
“When you go back several generations, you can have ancestors whom you inherited no DNA from (but you wouldn’t exist if they had not existed and had children)!”
I just rescanned a great little book on this issue:
‘Finding the treasures left along the trail.’
‘My Cherokee Heritage’ by Iris Stout.
She did a fantastic job and has great data. One thing is the copies of letters from the Secretary of War to the various chiefs explaining how they lost their home lands to our
government: appendix A:
A Decade ago one of my DNA relatives discussed the loss of land and basically no payments with a lawyer relative not related to me, that opening the books if still around on that issue would cause a lot of pain and remorse.
“It's not a lie... if you believe it.” — George Costanza, Seinfeld, Season 6: The Beard
Then you don’t near a Rez.
I suppose if their parents bought their way in there would be no question....
now, after that meaningless study, lets see how many minority students can't read, can't write, have no skills, no science classes and low SATs are accepted into tax payer aided colleges....
well all true...if its illegal to discriminate on ones race, sex, gender, etc, then why is there even any discussion about what students claim....its their right apparently.
9% lied about being Asian, to get into college.
Not too bright were they.
Actually, she did quite well for herself by lying.
Well it changes daily doesn’t it? Race, gender. It changes daily. Tabulating is racist.
I joke with my youngest about this. She was accepted top notch schools and received some very generous financial assistance, from prep school through Law school. She is just a middle class white girl from Vermont.
Having divorced parents helped a ton on the financial aid piece.
I wondered if the committee assumed it was Aborigine. Or they misread it as Austrian and assumed there was a separate Austrian language. Most likely, the committee didn't read the application very carefully.
So much for “white privilege” - why would people do this if that was a “privilege.”
Perhaps they had heard about the Aborigines from watching "Monty Python."
I was born in Idaho to two American citizens. I am therefore a Native American. My race is the 100yd Butterfly.
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