Demographic Selection: Hispanic and Polish?

FarscapeFan
Sat, 08 Aug 2015 14:59:52 +0000

What race does it say on your birth certificate? My son is biracial (half Hispanic of Puerto Rican decent, half a mix of multiple races and ethnicities.) On his birth certificate, we listed his race as Hispanic and it’s how he’s always identified. This was before the US Census and other government forms put Hispanic as an ethnicity under White. (To this day it makes my husband mad. He has never, ever identified as White, and his race has always been Hispanic - Puerto Rican.) My son choose Other on the common app under White, and then listed Puerto Rican. It was what we felt was legally correct according to his birth certificate.