Re:It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel
by b9a2cab5 on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:11PM
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Ah but they do. See this person that was Indian (but raised in Nigeria!) but pretended to be black to get into med school [1].
"I was always in a state of terror that I would be found out. During one interview at Case Western Reserve University, I was confronted by a black doctor and admissions committee member. He barraged me with questions about my family and personal background. I said that my family came from Nigeria. It was technically correct because my Indian parents had lived in Nigeria before moving to the United States.
Finally he said, eyes cold, in more of a question than a statement, “I read your application. It says you’re black.” I nodded."
[1]: https://nypost.com/2015/04/12/mindy-kalings-brother-explains...
Re:It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel
by fighterpilot on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:33PM
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I should have added the caveat that the person needs a sufficient proportion of actual ancestry so as to make it not an outright lie.
What they care about is how that person contributes to the metrics they're trying to maximize, or in the case of Asians, minimize.
To them, a 1/4 Black person 3/4 Asian person, and a full Black person, are exactly the same thing, as long as they're both incrementing the same number in their diversity report.