“WHICH BOXES TO CHECK? COLLEGE HOPEFULS WEIGH RACE, IDENTITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION”: Steve Sailer annotates the WAPO article.

Steve is right that ambitious students shouldn’t check the “Cuban” box. I’ve personally seen cases where Cubans were held to be ineligible for a preference for Hispanics, because … well … because they are Cuban.

Here’s another one: In the late 1980s/early 1990s, law schools (but not other parts of universities) were giving preferences to Asian students. But an Evangelical Christian Korean immigrant (on at least one occasion to which I was privy) was classified for that reason as “not really Asian.” “Real” Asians are apparently non-religious.

As far as I can tell, the underlying rule is, “if the student is from a group that votes Republican, we’re really not into them.”

Related (From Ed): At Power Line, John Hinderaker comments on Sailer’s post: Checking the Racial Box. “Given our increasingly complicated racial landscape, the entire corrupt and irrational edifice of affirmative action seems destined to collapse. It can’t happen too soon.”

Read the whole thing.