your need for ego boosting will be your downfall. fraud is a wonderful tool that will help you achieve your goals in life but you must KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.

My cousin won the mcdonalds african american scholarship award…She’s a white jew.

Can you verify this IAMA by taking a pic of your acceptance letters next to a “hey reddit”?

Similar story: I’m white, my dad is black. Long story short, his name is on my birth certificate, but he’s not biologically my dad. I have ALWAYS put down “african american” for tests/applications/etc. I got into UC Berkeley, went, and no one said anything about it.

They do this to promote “cultural diversity” quite sick i must say…

One of the most obvious troll posts I’ve seen. Perfect control conditions. No reason for filling out a form incorrectly. “I’m quite baffled!”

Not trying to ruin everyone’s day here, but is there actually a college admissions officer who can attest to something like this? (That he would get in v. his friends simply because of racial identity)? Instead of everyone claiming it just happens?

I know that the hivemind hates affirmitive action and any minority based scholarships so this seems like a very obvious troll thread to me…

But I would like to point something out. Hate me all you want but, I went to school in an inner city high school. IN this place, tons of kids could barely read or do their multiplication tables. The school was poor as fuck, the teachers didn’t give a fuck, everyone assumed we’d all be in jail one day, and you had to do almost nothing to get by. Late in life, I realized there exist private schools in really rich areas. Kids there take all range of science courses in high school: physics, chemistry, shit even calculus, etc. On top of that the whole school is expecting them to not only go to college but to be successful. Now if there was a kid from a private school like that up against a kid who went to *my* old high school, and they both had the same SAT scores, achievements, etc., I would be far more impressed by the kid from my high school. Why? Because they had to teach themselves, figure shit out on their own, and they still did just as good. I think they have something more is all

What if it was your personal statement that got you in? Unless you all shared those too. Post proof or else troll, sorry buddy D:

Maybe I should lie about my parole application and say that I am white?

How much did this cost you, out of curiosity? Most applications cost a processing fee, at least.

What were the schools/programs within the schools, if you feel comfortable saying, and what were your grades, scores, extras, volunteer work? (I could imagine not wanting to reveal the schools, but there’s no reason not to say your grades, scores, and extra-curriculars.)

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I know of two people who forged letters of recommendation, as well as academic and job history for their applications to B school. They both were accepted at, and graduated from, the best B schools in the land. I feel sorry for honest applicants that were denied.

GTFO stormfront.

Or prove it.

Personally, I don’t think we should regard race (or nationality) any more or less than we regard shoe size, or hair color, or other physical attributes. Seriously, what if we took everything that we filtered by race, and filter it by hair color. Balancing racism with reverse racism (affirmative action) is just as bad as “Eye for an Eye”. You don’t eliminate the racism, you make room for it to continue, and even increase it.

Affirmative action is trying to make life fair for people who are *generally* born into harder situations. But race seems like an arbitrary quality to base this equalization on.

1) Why not give preferential treatment to all ugly people?–you KNOW they have a rough life. Being beautiful gives you a hell of a lot more advantages in this world than being white does. Why can’t we level the playing field on the basis of looks, and make some of the beautiful people have to apply to community college at the last minute? If Bill and Melinda Gates can establish a college fund for hispanic students, and be hailed as heros, why would it seem like a cruel joke to have the Steve Jobs Scholarship Fund for the Profoundly Ugly?

2)Why not give preferential treatment to assholes–i.e people who’s brains are more hardwired for violence and aggression? Is it their fault they were born that way? Their life is a difficult one because their anger always gets in the way of them being good people. Is it fair that they have to work MUCH harder to suppress violent urges? Are they better people for learning to deal with that difference, or do WE need to spend more time accomodating their anger?

3) Why not give preferential treatment to white people in the 100-meter dash, much like we give preferential treatment to black people in academic admissions? What if there was a quota for white people, asians, and native americans that would make the final heat? Wouldn’t the world benefit from more diversity in the 100-meter final just as much as it would benefit from diversity in the freshman class? Why are these different?

We don’t do any of this for the same reason that we don’t give a wheelchair to a guy who walks with a limp. In giving him the wheelchair, which seems like a great way to help him keep up with everyone in the 5K, you’ve made sure that he’ll never improve his walking ability, and on the contrary, will make it worse by never allowing him to walk on his own. Ironically, he will rely on that wheelchair more each minute that he benefits from it’s use. Is life fair for him? No. Can we fix that? Or would we only make things worse (or permanent) by trying to fix them?

It’s hard to be born into a race that has been neglected and marginalized for generations (or a house with shitty parents, or a neighborhood riddled with crime)–these people definitely have an uphill battle, and I don’t mean to take that away from anyone. But recognize that those things are part of who you are, and by removing the obstacles in your path, the person who is trying to help you is also robbing you of your identity. **The challenges that I’ve faced and overcome are the biggest parts of what define me as a person, and I’d be LESS of a person if someone robbed me of those victories by giving them to me.**

TL;DR: Life’s not fair? Deal with it.

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i had a white Zimbabwe born friend who would circle african-american and caucasian on all his forms.

Does seem like a dubious system when a spanish born person has an advantage over a french born person in the US. Not that I like the french.

My best friend wrote that she was African American on her college application and selected it as her racial identity on her SATs because she was born in South Africa.

When she showed up to school and they found out she was white? Shit. Went. Down.

Is this another race-baiting troll post? I remember we had a bunch of them a while back. OP, do you have any proof of your story that you can provide?

> redditor for 9 hours

> 1 comment, 1 submission

Hmm, fishy.

This sounds a bit like the plot of Soul Man. You may need to take some “tanning pills” (If those really exist) to be convincing.

Contact a lawyer. You need to find out if your lying on the form has exposed you to any criminal liability.

How are you getting responses from “fairly hard schools” in the last two weeks? The only way you would have heard back from these schools would’ve been mid-December when you heard back from an early action or decision application. I don’t know what schools you consider to be “fairly hard”, but I’m just saying, this story is very unimpressive if you only applied to schools with rolling admission. That, or you’re a troll.

Didn’t you have to agree to some terms at the end of the application where it asks you to confirm that “everything that you’ve said is true to the best of your knowledge and that if it’s not, then there could be some sort of legal repercussions”?