# Can you lie about your race to get into a good college?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-lie-about-your-race-to-get-into-a-good-college/311230>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 6, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-lie-about-your-race-to-get-into-a-good-college/311230 "2005-07-06T02:08:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-lie-about-your-race-to-get-into-a-good-college/311230/61 "2005-07-10T14:59:21Z")

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Do they think they spontaneously originated in the caribbean? Their ancestry comes from Africa.

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**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-lie-about-your-race-to-get-into-a-good-college/311230/62 "2005-07-10T17:18:50Z")

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> [@Walloon](#):
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> Do they think they spontaneously originated in the caribbean? Their ancestry comes from Africa.

But now you’ve come full circle again! We all have ancestry from Africa!

It seems like the most recent posters haven’t started at the beginning of this thread.

**Excalibre** , that was an excellent post. I’m one of these who mostly opine that we don’t have so much a race problem as a culture problem, but you’ve given me a little to think about.

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