Lying about your race on college apps

[HajiShirazu]

I was wondering if anyone has tried this, or heard any stories from people who have. I know a friend who had horrible grades (like 2.1 GPA) and lied so he could transfer to another college. He got in to a fairly decent state school (well, good for getting in with a 2.1). When he got there, he had to take a bunch of orientation sessions and had an advisor that was for black students only, but otherwise had no problems. It really made me wonder why everybody doesn't do it - yeah, I know many of them ask for pictures now in the app, although you could always just borrow one from a friend.
I would be applying to grad school and would be thinking about doing this only for schools that would be a reach for me to get into. It's not as much of an advantage in grad school, I know, but these places are govt. funded and they still do look to include minorities. They do not ask for a picture, and my name kind of sounds blackish (ok, racist, whatever) so there's no way they would know until I got there. Could they kick me out for being white? I could always just say that my grandparent/parent/whoever was black and hence I considered myself so, or even make the legitimate claim that my ancestors were all from africa and therefore I am as well.