What are the consequences of putting down a false ethnicity on your application?

[ucbalumnus]

@aunt_bea

So you’re willing to masquerade as an African-American (by disguising and changing your appearance) and you have no concept of what it means to be “AA”, historically, and how offensive it is to an African American?

Wasn’t there someone who actually did that while applying to medical school, incidentally finding out that, while “disguised” as a black person, he had more incidents of being viewed as a potential suspect by police?