<p>If your name is SUPERJEW I doubt you should be saying you’re hispanic.</p>
<p>His father must have answered that question numerous times throughout his life when filling out forms for whatever - medical insurance, life insurance, etc. What has he put himself down as. If he put himself down his whole life as hispanic, then you are hispanic - if he put down caucasion, then you are caucasion.</p>
<p>you really don’t wanna be like those white kids who check off native american, and take up the scholarships/acceptances intended for real native americans. they’re not good people, and when you’re at the end of your life you’ll want to have some sort of integrity left.</p>
<p>I hate that college admission drives kids to think aboout doing things like this.</p>
<p>Yeah, if you’re really unsure, just say so on your college app. It is surely better than being white.</p>
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<p>Because of the federal regulation, announced a while ago and effective this year, linked to from the very first post in this thread.</p>
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<p>Some used to, but none should have that for the 2009-2010 application season (for applicants applying for fall 2010 admission to college) under the new federal regulation. Please let us know if you see any examples of CURRENT application forms that still have an “other” category for race.</p>
<p>I think the Questbridge application lets you put “other”. That application can be used to apply to colleges directly, sometimes without supplements etc.</p>
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<p>I just thought of a question.</p>
<p>As I understand it, admissions is, in a sense, based on who stands out among his ethnic group. I’m not sure how or if colleges group their applications into ethnic categories (I’d imagine that’s pretty discriminatory), but if they do somehow select the best Asian applicants, best white applicants, best Hispanic applicants, etc., then do they also select the best undeclared applicant?</p>
<p>If colleges do group applicants on ethnicity, are the undeclared a group? If that were the case, wouldn’t, say, an Asian applicant stand a better chance competing within the undeclared group as opposed to the Asian group?</p>
<p>^ It’s not at all clear what different colleges do with their list of applicants. But I think a lot of colleges would be very cautious about revealing a practice such as grouping applicants by ethnicity, because that has already been declared illegal for state universities in the [Bakke</a> case](<a href=“{{meta.fullTitle}}”>{{meta.fullTitle}}) back in the 1970s.</p>
<p>they don’t group by ethnicity. they usually group by region. being hispanic/indian/black is a boost, and in elite admissions any boost could be a game changer. if you checked asian/white/undeclared then you get no boost.</p>
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<p>There are Sephardic Jews you know, not to mention the fact that I’ve met Mexican Jews.</p>
<p>there are also black jews lol</p>
<p>Lol, TheWerg was a hispanic jew.</p>
<p>No, I don’t think they group by ethnicity in that there’s an Asian pile and a Caucasian pile. However, I think they might group mentally, which is inevitable to a degree. For example, they might think “I’ve seen Asian applicants far more accomplished than this one” or “this Hispanic applicant sure stands out among the other Hispanic applicants.” </p>
<p>Of course this may be partly unintentional, but as colleges admit, they do strive for diversity. Therefore, such considerations are not completely out of question.</p>
<p>If that’s the case, I really think being an undeclared would yield benefits for Asian applicants. </p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
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<p>Persians are not Arabs. </p>
<p>In fact: [Persians</a> Are Not Arabs](<a href=“http://www.persiansarenotarabs.com/]Persians”>http://www.persiansarenotarabs.com/)</p>
<p>As posted above, and as posted in the federal definitions linked from the first reply (post #2) in this thread, both Arabs and Persians and all other Middle Eastern people are categorized as “white.” It may not make sense, but that is the law.</p>
<p>A little snippet of an interesting book on one of the subjects discussed in this thread: </p>
<p><a href=“http://books.google.com/books?id=oMMab6JiwtAC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=“taboo+against+discussing+race+and+IQ+has+not+left+this+an+open+question”&source=bl&ots=Wml9Pu63MP&sig=Lp6IouLHLgF79W5JngOXjSmh85k&hl=en&ei=SJqASsi7GMGltgeFyaj1AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=“taboo%20against%20discussing%20race%20and%20IQ%20has%20not%20left%20this%20an%20open%20question”&f=false[/url]”>http://books.google.com/books?id=oMMab6JiwtAC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=“taboo+against+discussing+race+and+IQ+has+not+left+this+an+open+question”&source=bl&ots=Wml9Pu63MP&sig=Lp6IouLHLgF79W5JngOXjSmh85k&hl=en&ei=SJqASsi7GMGltgeFyaj1AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=“taboo%20against%20discussing%20race%20and%20IQ%20has%20not%20left%20this%20an%20open%20question”&f=false</a></p>
<p>i don’t plan to indicate my race, but admission officers are pretty smart enough to tell i’m asian.</p>