One of the problems of being a *favored* minority and applying for college is that they will race-norm you into a school that is above your ability to succeed. The racial bean counters in the admission offices don’t care whether the favored minorities graduate, just what color the overall starting class is. The chances of graduation may be much lower than average, but that doesn’t count.
Years ago, people were complaining that UC-Berkeley was 51% asian. The proper response was, “So what?” But, there may have been some effort to change the racial composition by disfavoring asian applicants.
I knew a guy at a Midwestern university that said he was white, just so he would have no chance of being race-normed into a school that was too competitive for him. That was in the mid-80’s. Now everyone has a reason to distrust the admissions process.
