<p>If I’ve recently found that I am of hispanic origin (my ancestors were driven from spain into northern Europe during the 1500s) but have never marked it as my ethnicity on any forms, will colleges think that I’m lying about my ethnicity? I don’t look hispanic whatsoever, and my name does not sound spanish, but recent family research has shown that I am indeed hispanic.</p>
<p>pianoman,
You ought to add your newly discovered Hispanic heritage to your Chances thread, you will likely get some new and some revised input.</p>
<p>My son will most likely make national merit commended. The threshold for NHRP in our state is much lower than that, so we were not going to include the NHRP award on list of honors/awards on common app. Now I am thinking he should include it since he qualifies and it is based on a relatively stringent definition (25%).</p>
<p>I would definitely encourage him to include it. There are some schools that give merit scholarships for NHRP but not NMF, see this thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/hispanic-students/735291-colleges-offering-scholarships-national-hispanic-scholars.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/hispanic-students/735291-colleges-offering-scholarships-national-hispanic-scholars.html</a></p>
<p>Thank you so much! I’m so glad I found this thread.</p>
<p>What about an Italo-Argentine?</p>
<p>Yes, anyone from Argentina or who’s family comes from Argentina is considered Hispanic, no matter where the original immigrants to Argentina came from. When you check the Hispanic box on the CA, this list of options will come up, you check SA:</p>
<p>Central America
Cuba
Mexico
Puerto Rico
South America (excluding Brazil)
Spain
Other----blank box comes up if checked (“if Other please specify”).</p>
<p>Woohoo thanks entomom</p>
<p>You’re welcome! Good to hear from another Argentine, my Ds are half Argentine through their father, who’s family was originally from the Catalonia area of Spain.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to look at the threads on this forum about scholarships and fly-in opportunities.</p>
<p>My Dad’s parents left Germany/France as young kids, and moved to Bolivia/Argentina. Eventually my Grandfather went to Argentina from Bolivia, where he met my grandmother. They lived their for many years and had my dad and his brother. They moved to the US when my dad was quite young, but they spoke spanish in the home. My mother is 4th generation American. Do I qualify as Hispanic for college stuff?</p>
<p>tpow,
Yes, if you self-identify as Hispanic you would be considered Hispanic for college admissions, including NHRP, which stipulates that one must be at least one-quarter Hispanic. </p>
<p>You would mark Hispanic on the CA and designate South America. Your race would be white (from your dad’s parents) and whatever other races apply to your mom and dad.</p>
<p>On a related note, does being hispanic alot with college? I’m thinking it does, especially for colleges like Harvard that are heavy on AA. Am I correct?</p>
<p>Being Hispanic is considered a hook for college admissions. However, be aware that not all Hispanics are created equal, there are many other factors that adcoms consider, see post #40 of this thread. Also, for selective colleges, the competition within Hispanics is very high.</p>
<p>spanish people are hispanic now??
what is with all this stuff? there was Latino Hispanic, non-Latino Hispanic, and Puerto Rican as three separate “races,” yet East Asians and South Asians, completely different ethnic groups were classified as one “race”, and there was no category for mixed people, or Middle Easterners. I don’t think Australian Aborigines had one either. This is getting a bit ridiculous.</p>
<p>btb,
It’s hard to know where to start.</p>
<p>First, if you read post #1 on this thread you will see that Hispanic is an ethnicity, and that Hispanics can be of any race(s). Latino is sometimes used to refer to people from Latin America, as opposed to Europe, but again in post #1, the terms Latino and Hispanic as used by the US Census and college admissions are interchangeable. Puerto Ricans are Hispanics/Latintos from PR, and has noting to do with race. For purposes of college admissions and NHRP, Spaniards have been considered Hispanic for several years that I know of, and perhaps much longer.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what you mean about there being no category for ‘mixed people’ if you mean race, because students can designate as many races as apply to them. </p>
<p>It is true that there are not categories for every world ethnicity. The reason for this is likely because the intent of ethnic and racial designation is because colleges are interested in identifying URM applicants, typically NA, AA and Hispanic (particularly MA and PR).</p>
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<p>Again to cite FAMM from post #28:</p>
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<p>Does anyone know how hispanic ethnicity affects the questbridge process?</p>
<p>I’m not that familiar with how QB works, maybe someone else here has experience and can give you some input. If you haven’t already, ask your question on the QB subforum (under FA & Scholarshps).</p>
<p>My grandfather was born and raised in Spain… can I claim Hispanic heritage on a college application? I’ve always been so confused about this… some say yes, because it’s Spain, but others say no because Spain is a European country, and that makes me caucasian. Ahh… please help!</p>
<p>Please go back to post #1 and read it carefully. Hispanics can be (and are) of any race(s). On the CA, you are first asked if you are Hispanic (Y/N). Then in a separate question, you are asked which race(s) you are.</p>
<p>Now read post #47 above. When you chose Hispanic on the CA, one of the options they will give you for describing your background is Spain. So yes, you can mark Hispanic. How much of a hook being Hispanic with a Spanish (as opposed to MA, SA, etc.) heritage will likely depend on:</p>
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<li><p>The college; and </p></li>
<li><p>The rest of your application (SES, overcoming diversity, involvement in the Hispanic community, etc.)</p></li>
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<p>this post wrt to post #56 aboug questbridge fwiw:</p>
<p>Questbridge is supposed to help URMs from poorer communities and help stream line the application process. I do not know that much about it, but at least read the blurbs about it on side of various colleges that work with it. So, I think if you are hispanic and from an under represented poorer community it might be useful. Seems like a resource to get people to expand their application scope and target more reach schools…but not an expert..easy enough to dig up more if you look at the Brown web page on admissions you will see they mention supporting applicants using it..</p>