Ethnicity and the Common App

austinmshauri
Sat, 22 Oct 2016 18:18:45 +0000

@siliconvalleymom, Not all birth certificates list races. My children’s birth certificates don’t.

@hsgraduate2017,Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race, so you can be both. Does your grandfather consider himself Hispanic? My family’s ethnic roots are all over Europe, but even though they’ve been in the US for many generations the family still identifies with those ethnicities. How far back is “way back” and how old were you when you learned your grandfather’s family had Hispanic ancestors? From your post it sounds like a recent thing.