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Objectively, one way to protest the use of race in admissions is for everyone to lie making the practice useless. Game theory is strongly in favor of lying. P
by optimiz3 5y ago
Objectively, one way to protest the use of race in admissions is for everyone to lie making the practice useless. Game theory is strongly in favor of lying.
Personally, it always infuriated me when I was applying in the early 2000s that most colleges had a checkbox for "underrepresented" minorities. Don't bother applying if you're not the "right" kind of minority.
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- cyberbanjo 5y agoSeems needlessly dangerous to lie on an application like that, just mark prefer not to answer.
- ravel-bar-foo 5y agoA high school guidance counsellor told our class that race in my jurisdiction was legally a matter of self-identification. The only danger is probably the social shame for being called out.
- optimiz3 5y agoWell in my case I marked it truthfully, but what is an institution going to do? Force genetic testing? Tell someone they aren't "x" enough? What if someone grew up adopted? No way an institution would dare challenge an answer.
- sethammons 5y agoA white south african kid at my high school that graduated a year or two before me (20 years ago) put in for an african american scholarship as he had dual citizenship. Denied because he was white. Feels similar enough and shows someone challenging an answer.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoTechnically they can't force you to do a DNA test. But even if they could, you could do one in advance, and i'm pretty sure, with all the genetic mixing, you'd come to atleast 1% of some minority status and have papers to prove it.