<p>“Leaving out the Egyptian part obviously. Egypt is in Africa though a lot of people don’t know it. Isnt law all about the details anyway? Seriously though, how awkward is it when I show up? I am not looking for your ethical take on this. I just want to know how ballsy I’d have to be to try it. I look like I’m from Italy if you’re wondering. I identify much more with cracker culture than african american culture, but whatevs.”
I don’t know why people are encourgaing you to break the law and lie except for the fact that they realize that an otherwise competitive candidate is kicking himself in the face. The colleges clearly define urm’s of the african american group as belonging to to the black racial groups of Africa (which excludes those white south africans, white kenyans, and non black northern Africans). The other problem with this besides the ethical part is that it will be very easy for you to be caught, such as when your advisor pulls up your profile and it says African and you obviously look like typical Egyptian (who is not African looking). There will be numerous opportunities for you to be caught, OCI recruitng urms could rat you out, other students recruitng urms, class mates, people in the admissions office, most law schools are small especially in the t-14, I was in a program of 400 people for 4 years and new everyone by the end, it would be hard to pull off what your suggesting. Realize other students who work in the school will also have access to your files and with a cut throat environment…</p>
<p>You are right it is a ballsy move because there is a high chance of you being screwed
1- you could get kicked out in your 3rd year or basically any time, leaving you with 200-300k in debt and no degree, no chance to obtain a degree, and possibly a criminal record as it says right on the form lying to the admissions committee is a form of fraud.
2- Even if you get away and graduate you can at any time in your career be de-barred, lose your license to practice law and basically be screwed and left with only your undergraduate degree. If this is something you did in your undergrad degree it could happen again to that degree too, as they will call your previous college and you could actually los both your degrees in addition to ability to practice law
3.Finally if you can’t get into the t-14 w/o cheating, don’t you think you may encounter significant difficulty in competing there? Even in the t-14 with the except of the t-3, which I am assuming your not competitive for other wise you wouldn’t be cheating, the bottom 20-30% of the class does not really have the same great prospects as the rest of the class even from lesser schools. That is 54% of the class at fordham, the top half basically pulls down 150k or more on average. However the bottom 20-30% of nyu can’t make top law simply because they have too many b minus and cs on their transcript. </p>
<p>My suspicion is this is where you will rank in your class if you make it in (remember you already know your not competitive without cheating so your not going to place in the top half of your class who didnt cheat). So yes lets say you get not caught but it might not even help you in the long run. One is better to be top 10% of their class in a top 30-15 school than bottom 30 of a t-14</p>