DNA tests open way to entitlement claims

[IzzyJ]

<p>This is an article from the New York Times though I found it through IHT. Perhaps you guys have read about the new test you can do to find out your the ancestry of your DNA? (ethnicity) Seems like some students are interested in using the test to be able to use ethnicity in college admissions…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/12/news/genes.php[/url]”>http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/12/news/genes.php&lt;/a&gt;

DNA tests open way to entitlement claims<br>
By Amy Harmon The New York Times
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2006</p>

<p>NEW YORK Alan Moldawer’s adopted twins, Matt and Andrew, had always thought of themselves as white. But when it came time for them to apply to college last year, Moldawer thought it might be worth investigating the origins of their slightly tan-tinted skin, with a new DNA kit that he had heard could determine genetic ancestry.</p>

<p>The results, designating the boys 9 percent Native American and 11 percent northern African, arrived too late for the admissions process. But Moldawer, a business executive in Silver Spring, Maryland, says they could be useful in obtaining financial aid…</p>

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[hsmomstef]

<p>very interesting – my son would love to be part native american (and just about anything but what I suspect our family is – northern european), but not for college admission purposes or anything. He just thinks it would be cool.</p>

<p>wonder how much these tests cost? a pretty penny, I am guessing!</p>

[m1a2c2kali]

<p>“Ashley Klett’s younger sister marked the “Asian” box on her college applications this year, after the elder Klett, 20, took a DNA test that said she was 2 percent East Asian and 98 percent European.”</p>

<p>marking Asian isn’t a real smart idea nowadays… unless you want to face more competition as an over represented minority</p>

[HeavenWood]

<p>So they’re part Arab and part American Indian…big deal? Have they ever dealt with the discrimination that Arabs and Indians have to go through everyday?</p>

[lasflores]

<p>If you never had a clue you were a minority, you have absolutely no right to use the results of a DNA test to lump yourself in with a group of people that are actually there because of hardships they have faced due to their actual minority status. Not that I actually believe in AA, but this is ********…</p>