[dark_lord]

Correct. If you plan to apply to law school (note that points based racial quotas for undergraduate schooling has now been ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS) just go vacation in Puerto Rico for a couple months. Get a lot of sun. Practice the accent. Come back, dye your hair black. Give yourself a "hispanic" middle name, then go by it (J. "Ricardo" Smith.) Keep up the tan in tanning parlors. Apply and claim that you are Hispanic. If you have to defend the claim, it was your great grandfather on your mother's side. After you are accepted you can knock off the tanning (unless you like it.)

Voila. Game the system.

[Age of Reason]

No, no, dark_lord, you miss the point.

Apply looking Sweedish if that's what someone "looks" like--but putting down on the application they are a minority.

Let the school argue the student isn't because he doesn't fit some stereotype the school has of "black" people.

How dare they!

[Gritty]

Game the system.

I know a fellow who is lighter and blonder than I am and whose grandmother was a Cherokee Indian. He still retains tribal rights as well as gets affirmative action preference for his government job, not that he genuinely needs it as he is talented enough as it is.

I think I'll "discover" a grandparent who is also an Indian and go for the Gold, too! Who can dispute me? My grandparents died many years ago so they can't object to the fraud in their name.

I may as well get on the gravy train along with the other charlatans in this country! Why should I be discriminated against because of my inherited skin color? It's unConstitutional!

[El Gato]

Why bother with the suntan, and speaking Spanish? Change your name to Salinas or something and claim your ancestors came from Spain. Plenty of blue eyed blond Hispanics anyway. A long time friend, a Lt. Col. in the Army Reserve, who himself resembles Manuel Nortega, has blond haired blue eyed sisters. They often have the less common surnames though. (His is uncommon even in San Antonio, with "only" 200 phone listings, contrast that with Rodriguez with 8044 listings (only for that varient of the spelling) (As it happens their daugther did go to law school, and then went and married a Gringo :) Which might be considered better than what my daughter did after law school, she went and married a Yankee from New Jersey!) Not many light skinned fair haired Rodriguezes out there, some probably.

Look at Vinciente Fox for example, he does have dark hair, but otherwise doesn't look particularly "Hispanic", although he does look Spanish.