This is me joining the mobs of others asking if they count. :]

Applying to College Hispanic Students
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<p>^Actually, sometimes people DO need to ask because they have been given incorrect information by HS GCs, friends, family, etc.</p>

<p>Even though a student may identify themselves as Hispanic, they could have been told they are not considered Hispanic for college admission for many reasons, some the misconceptions we have heard here in the past are:</p>

<p>Last name is not Hispanic
Don’t look Hispanic
Are racially Asian or white, so cannot be Hispanic
Brazilians are not Hispanic (a gray area)</p>

<p>If you are referring to people wanting to claim they are Hispanic only for an advantage in college admissions when they really don’t identify as Hispanic, then you should be posting on this thread:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/927219-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-8-a.html?highlight=race[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/927219-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-8-a.html?highlight=race&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Here on the Hispanic Students forum our goal is to deal with the facts, data, primary source information, experience, etc. of Hispanics in college admissions, not inflammatory political and social issues of AA.</p>