Horse manure. Listing yourself as Native American is a sure-fire way to get affirmative action treatment.
Higher grades, more scholarship money, and all the rest of it.
When my one of my daughters considered going to Darmouth, she was a National Merit Scholar. While she was there, she met three Indian girls from Oklahoma, who had been flown up free and offered full scholarships.
Although my daughter was a National Merit Scholar, she was not offered ANY scholarship money. So, she went elsewhere, and was very successful.
Dartmouth has a history of offering education to Indians from the area. But evidently they had run short of them, so they flew some in from the Southwest.
The Osage Indians (we have some regular Freepers who are enrolled members of the tribe) are just about as rich as Croesus ~ and they give scholarships to tribal chillun'.
They're in Oklahoma I believe.
They may well have prior arrangements with Dartmouth.
Discussing this with my dad the other day an Indian couple we knew well who belonged to a tribe in Kansas went to a tribal boarding school for their educations since the tribal lands were simply too spread out to provide a central school. They then attended a university on a tribal scholarship ~ he was a CPA.
Just because you run into an Indian with a scholarship doesn't mean he got preferential treatment ~ he may well have been the only one to get any treatment ~ and from his own tribe.
These guys always had outstanding warrants on them, but the cops would just drive by rather than tangle with them.
That's what I consider preferential treatment
The guy directly across the street from them was an Indianapolis cop ~ he's the one with the two fancy dogs he'd stake out so we had to walk through the crick on our way to the bus stop in the morning. One day he let his dogs kill and eat his baby.
Now a cop that tough wouldn't even tangle with the Barnharts.