Enough people falsely believe they are Native American - the "Cherokee princess" myth; http://www.native-languages.org/princess.htm - that I can't believe that simply saying one is Native American is enough to get easier admission.
Here's how I envision it. I write in my essay that "I'm proud that I'm part Native American. My grandmother told me that her great-grandmother was Cherokee. My ancestors were forced off their land, and I think that's a tragedy.", etc.
Admissions officer reads it, rolls eyes, then plops it into the rejection pile.
Do you have something more substantial in mind than just "saying" to get easier admission?
I grew up being told by various family members about a great-great grandfather whose mother was Comanche. “You’re so very lucky to have taken after your grandmother, with those high cheekbones! They’re from her Comanche great-grandmother.”
The whole “Comanche/Cherokee princess” thing is not an uncommon family myth in Texas and Oklahoma, and I had a high school classmate whose mother thoroughly believed she was 1/8 Native and therefore eligible for all sorts of scholarships.
I now realize that it is probably unlikely that said great-great-great grandmother of mine was Comanche.
notlukesky was talking about admissions to selective universities, not employment as a professor.
Following your tangent, yes, I have reviewed it, and not, she did not. There is no evidence, despite considerable review, that that happened, and you are repeating false propaganda.
> But specific evidence that she gained her position at Harvard (at least in part) through her claims to Native American heritage is lacking. Warren denied applying for special consideration as a person of Native American heritage during her career, and when the matter was examined in 2012 in response to Brown’s claims, people with whom Warren had worked similarly denied her ancestral background’s factoring into the professional opportunities afforded her ...
> In the most exhaustive review undertaken of Elizabeth Warren’s professional history, the Globe found clear evidence, in documents and interviews, that her claim to Native American ethnicity was never considered by the Harvard Law faculty, which voted resoundingly to hire her, or by those who hired her to four prior positions at other law schools. At every step of her remarkable rise in the legal profession, the people responsible for hiring her saw her as a white woman.
Nobody, not even her, denies that she claimed to be Native American. Snopes is fact checking whether it helped her achieve her position at Harvard. And their conclusion, despite being investigated, no evidence has emerged that it did aid her.
You'll never know because you are doing the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la-la-la" when anyone tells you you're wrong.
You are willfully ignoring evidence. You may dismiss Snopes outright, but Snopes is not the sole source of the evidence, but rather a summary. And Snopes links to their sources. Here's one, which is the primary source for one of the paragraphs I quoted:
In it you'll read a Boston Globe article from 2018:
> But this year, as she campaigns for reelection to the Senate and considers a 2020 presidential bid, she has taken a major step: releasing the contents of her university personnel files to the Globe after six years of rebuffing requests for them.
Here's how I envision it. I write in my essay that "I'm proud that I'm part Native American. My grandmother told me that her great-grandmother was Cherokee. My ancestors were forced off their land, and I think that's a tragedy.", etc.
Admissions officer reads it, rolls eyes, then plops it into the rejection pile.
Do you have something more substantial in mind than just "saying" to get easier admission?