Posted on 11/23/2021 10:17:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Thirty-four percent of white college student applicants have lied about their race to admissions officials to better their chances of getting accepted into their desired university or receive better financial aid, according to a survey from Intelligent.
The survey of 1,250 white college applicants ages 16 and older found that the most popular racial claim was Native American. Out of the 34 percent of white college applicants who lied about their race, 77 percent were accepted.
“It’s the easiest lie to tell because you can’t get caught in it,” said Vijay Jojo Chokal-Ingam, an admissions consultant at SOSAdmissions.com and author of “Almost Black: The True Story of How I Got Into Medical School By Pretending to Be Black.”
“A lot of people, based on very flimsy reasons, claim to be either African-American, Hispanic or Native American because they know it’s going to improve their chances,” Chokal-Ingam said in an interview with The College Fix.
Though lying on college applications is frowned upon, universities typically do not push back on students about their race. Instead, they accept it regardless of what they look like, he said.
“It’s become a joke,” Chokal-Ingam said.
He cited Senator Elizabeth Warren, who famously “lied about her race to get a faculty position at Harvard.”
“If there was a degree to which people felt guilt about doing that, it died with Warren because the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Washington Post—they all ran to her defense,” he said. “This prompted an ‘if she can do it, I can do it too’ ideology.”
“When President Trump called Senator Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas,’ [the media] called him a racist. They said it was a racist thing. On the contrary, I think that he was bringing to attention a very important issue in the field of racial-race relations,” Chokal-Ingam said.
“He was making people aware of the fact that people routinely, on a massive scale, lie about their race.”
When Chokal-Ingam was faced with the prospect of getting caught in his lie, he said he knew exactly what he needed to say to shut them down: “I don’t want to talk about my ethnic background because I think it is very racist for you to ask me these highly inappropriate questions.”
Colleges are not solely looking at a person’s race when choosing people to go to their universities. For instance, Harvard scores on three sections: academics, extracurriculars and personality, said Kenny Xu, author of “An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy.”
Whereas white college applicants are more likely to lie about their race to gain acceptance into the university of their choice, many universities are deliberately controlling which races will join their classrooms through affirmative action clauses, he said in an interview with The College Fix.
“In academics, Asians score the highest of all races, in extracurriculars Asians score the highest level of the races, and in personality, Asians get the lowest score,” Xu said.
“Out of all the reasons, despite the fact that they would score highest on alumni interviews and second highest teacher recommendations … It’s pretty much the personality score that is used to discriminate against Asians in the college admissions process.”
Unlike their white counterparts, Asians are unable to “cheat” their way out of it, he said.
“For various reasons, white people are more mixed in their orientation. They can get away with it more than Asians can,” he said.
Ultimately, meritocracy is the best strategy for college admissions, Xu said.
“Merit should be the only criteria to which a student should get into a university,” Xu said.
“You shouldn’t have to worry about things like race or admitting people beyond their scope of qualifications.”
Instead of lying to get into certain elite colleges, Xu also suggested students expand their horizons.
“If you don’t get into the one you’re qualified for, guess what? You can go to a university that you are qualified for and you will achieve and be a big fish in a smaller pond,” he said.
Chokal-Ingam said the special treatment given to blacks and Hispanics is damaging.
“It is a stigma they will carry on the rest of their lives,” he said.
Wasn’t lying
They just self-identified as another race
Like the white gal Rachel Dolean who turned herself black and ran the state naacp chapter
“It’s not a lie if you ‘believe’ it!”
Finally! Someone who knows the proper response to any such "Doubting Thomases" who question one's racial identification!
Make them hold up a brown paper bag to your skin! Make them reveal that they are "old timey" racists!
Regards,
My son graduated from Pepperdine University with a 3.9 GPA and scored a 34 on the MCAT and got accepted to only one med school. A small school in Virginia across the country from family and friends. Ultimately, he decided not to go and got a Master’s in computer science. He’s glad now because he’s making good money, not stressed and not heavily in debt.
I never thought to have him lie about his race but after all was said and done, I told him he should have lied about being gay. I told him he would never have had to prove it, lol.
In that case, I don’t think many are going to ask them to prove it. 😀🤗🤗
“the most popular racial claim was Native American”
Well that’s not a lie if you were born in the USA.
Race is a a social construct . So is it really a “lie”?
just yesterday some random FReeper said “we’re all African” so if that’s true- no one is lying.
PS. Just to be clear that FR was not being sarcastic.
Morale of the story: White people lie too? /s
If they don’t lie, they will be denied due equal consideration because of their skin color. This must be done, the evil of this leftist racist idiocy must be blunted and destroyed at every opportunity.
We call it the “Pocahontas” maneuver
My eldest grand daughter does well in high school, though not particularly stellar. Yet she’s received a couple of offers from colleges with scholarships and the like. The only thing we can think of as to why is that her mother named her “Carmen.”
IIRC, Dolezal...
White is the New Nigger.
The human race arose in Africa. We are all African Americans.
You just let it fly there, didn’t you!
It's FAR worse than that. It's also the stigma the qualified minorities will carry for the rest of their lives, too.
When ever I run into a so-called 'minority' individual in business, my first thought is "Did they get there from merit, or from skin color?" The only way to know the truth is for them to prove it - from experience, and that takes time. They are simply not accepted as they are portrayed. That is a fact of life in these days of affirmative action. I've known far too many who were NOT qualified.
Change your sex to Female and be LGBT. Neither can be verified.
34% is too low. If Senator Elizabeth “Lieawatha” Warren can do it and be rewarded by the same government that institutionalized racism under the name “affirmative action”, 100% of students need to do it.
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