found that people with Chinese, Indian or Pakistani-sounding names were 28% less likely to get invited to an interview than the fictitious candidates with English-sounding names, even when their qualifications were the same.
Do state schools really look at names? It's hard for me to imagine a state school looking at peoples names or pictures and reclassifying the races of applicants. It would be fairly disturbing if they did, in fact.
(Again, I'm not suggesting that you should have to misrepresent your race to be treated fairly. I'm just suggesting that, from a practical standpoint, you could probably avoid discrimination in state school college applications by ticking a box that would be more favorable to you.)
(I am in no way suggesting that it's right to make people misrepresent their ethnicity to get fair treatment.)