Latinos putting "Native American" on college admission forms? MIT?

Dmantacos
Sun, 30 Jul 2017 21:58:34 +0000

Hello all, Thank you for all of your insight on my question. I think it should be noted that I was at no point trying to alter the truth to gain a disingenuous advantage. I asked solely because I was sifting through the “common application” and there was a part that asked for if you were Native American and it had listed in parenthesis (All indigenous of the Americas should be considered). I would never claim to be of a northern tribe as I simply have no ties to any sort of Natives of what is now the U.S. My grandmother is almost fully Native American but even then it is not of northern tribes. I simply asked in the context of what to put on that specific part of the application. Having read the comments I have come to the conclusion that, as I have put Latino/Hispanic on every single standardized document up until this point, it would seem odd that I would alter this now, therefore, I will not. I would like to thank once more everyone who made their opinion known I sincerely do appreciate it!