This guy "won him the title of president of the Black Student Union, despite not being, well, black" [1]

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/bill-nguyen-startups

Thanks. So Bill Nguyen proved that it's possible to self-identify yourself under different race.

University Admission Committee may not mind such "self race re-branding" practice too, because university ratios of admitted minorities would be improving as well.

The article talking about high school, not college.

Anyway I find, that Americans a little bit confused about things like race, ethnicity and nationality.

Asking to fill nationality in official documents is legitimate. Asking for ethnicity is borderline. Asking to fill a race is barbaric.

Have you ever dealt with an academic bureaucracy? Barbarism is a good description!

I guess universities are barbaric then.