<p>Who cares what the other issue are? The OP is asking a direct question. He is 1/6 Mexican and yes, he can check that box on the app. What’s the big deal about that? And yes, the schools generally do accept it without question, unless some flags are raised, and if they are, they may choose to investigate and if fraud is found, the consequences are severe and not worth it. </p>
<p>Hunt, my friend’s son has a name that would work well with Bridget O’Malley. Yes, he put down Hispanic, as he is 1/8th so. He also has red hair and freckles on very fair skin coloring. So what? And he got a scholarship from a pot reserved for URMs at that school. So what? </p>
<p>His heritage meant NOTHING to him or to his mother, my friend. Purely a box he could check that gave him some admissions advantage and access to some funds earmarked for those who could check that box. Doesn’t have to mean anything. I’d do the same with my kids if we had any Latino in us that I could pin point. Those schools that have stipulations may make them, so one should check when it’s beyond the 1/16th point to be safe, or I would, anyways, but that’s just me. </p>
<p>The only group that sometimes gets scrutiny is Native American (Indian) as some school and definitely some awards will require some tribal registry proof, so one had better have that in hand or check that out before checking that box when one has no connection at all to the tribes and only a small trace to that line. </p>