Several years ago the son of a friend of mine graduated high school with a fairly high GPA and was in the top 15% of his class. He also had a good SAT score (~1250). He was no Poindexter but he was smart, good academics, some extra-curriculars, National Honor Society, etc.
He applied to North Carolina and was accepted, much to the astonishment of everybody who is familiar with how hard it is for an out-of-state white male to get accepted there. The family was very proud. Not long after, the family drove down to Chapel Hill for the orientation.
A few weeks later, my friend started bringing home some interesting mail from the family's post office box. There were weekly invitations to join various black organizations, black student clubs, and so forth. It turned out, after my friend confronted his son, that the son had noted on his original application materials that he was "African-American" because he figured it would help him get accepted.
My friend never told his proud wife (or anybody else but me as far as I know) about this, and the son "mysteriously" decided not to attend North Carolina after all.
Ain't America great?
Diversity is our strength.
Wow, good thing he decided not to go. Think of the stink they would have made when the ruse was discovered. Sharpton would have been down there with his posse in a New York minute.