A question on URM status!

Shinjin
Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:03:11 +0000

I don’t mean to revive the AA debate, I just want an answer and then I can let this die.

A girl at my school was accepted to Stanford, and she marked herself as Hispanic on the application. She was 1/8 Spanish, from Spain, so she’s technically correct, but it doesn’t seem right.

I was deferred, but I hadn’t marked that on my application, despite my also being 1/8 Spanish - I felt it would be much like cheating, since Spaniards has never faced the problems of Mexican-Americans, and my family is solidly in the middle class. Would it be honorable to mark down Hispanic as part of my ethnicity, on future applications?