Will lying about my ethnicity help?

ghh900
Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:32:08 +0000

I’ve heard and seen many stories where people who are a minority get into a more highly selective college than people who aren’t a minority with the same/better grades. I’m caucasian(Armenian) and on my PSAT’s I didn’t check any of the ethnicity box’s. My first name sounds pretty hispanic and I look really spanish. If I put hispanic on my SAT’s and hispanic when I apply to college, is there any way they can actually know I’m lying? Will it actually higher my chances of getting in?