Portuguese?

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<p>US Census definition as given in the link in post #2:</p>

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Hispanics or Latinos are those people who classified themselves in one of the specific Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino categories listed on the Census 2000 questionnaire -‘Mexican, Mexican Am., Chicano,’ ‘Puerto Rican’, or ‘Cuban’ -as well as those who indicate that they are ‘other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino.’ Persons who indicated that they are ‘other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino’ include those whose origins are from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Central or South America, the Dominican Republic or people identifying themselves generally as Spanish, Spanish-American, Hispanic, Hispano, Latino, and so on.

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<p>While Brazilians sometimes are defined as Hispanic (NHRP) and sometimes are not (CA), I have not seen any Hispanic definitions for college admissions that include strictly Portuguese descent (not via Brazil). vannman, if you have evidence to the contrary, please post it, this is definitely a ‘gray’ area in the Hispanic definition, so any relevant information would be helpful.</p>

<p>As always, if a candidate identifies as Hispanic, they should indicate it for admissions purposes and let the colleges decide what they want to do. As with any demographic group, individual colleges have their own broad or narrow definition and degree of importance they place on these qualities.</p>