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Originally Posted by qwikz28
but now your Irish-American. They are asking for my native descent, not my skin tone. Am I African-American or Caucasian. By definition I'm African American, but whose definition is that anyway? Is there a set guideline for this? Maybe I'm trying to justify taking advantage of a system thats designed to level the playing field for underprivileged people. I don't know. Right now my LSAC has me listed as Other. I applied to undergrad as African American with the exception of Rutgers which I applied as white. I didn't get rejected from any schools. African American makes the most sense to me.
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Jake,
You may want to search around on the Internet and see what other people have done. My buddy Mike is not the only person I've heard of who has had to use the "Egypt is part of Africa" rule to qualify as African-American.
Also, what about people from South Africa? Some of them are as white as ghosts, but they are technically African.