<p>[Schools rely on a person’s honesty when seeking consideration as a URM, i.e., they don’t go around trying to determine or investigate whether the applicant is actually telling the truth and generally do not question it after the fact, so if you are asking whether you can potentially get away with being dishonest (I prefer that word to your “ballsy”) the answer is probably yes. ]</p>
<p>Schools may not, but if some former classmate or anyone else who knows of this decides to notify the bar association in which student like my HS classmate decides to practice, he’s may have some serious questions facing him during the Character & Fitness assessment. If those questions aren’t cleared up in a satisfactory manner and the local bar association takes a dim view, he may end up not being able to practice due to character fitness issues.</p>