I disagree that she can’t state her race as Asian on the application is she doesn’t have an Asian name, participate in the culture, or in any way feel Asian. My daughter likes surfer clothes, country music, Mexican food, American sports. She participated in cultural events as a younger child (language and dance class, camps, CNY, art), even went on a heritage tour, but she didn’t really enjoy those activities and got busy with sports and band and art. She’s American. But she IS Asian, Chinese by birth, looks Chinese she is racially Chinese. The first day at a new high school, a boy asked her how she could play lacrosse if she was Chinese. She just looked at him and asked “Are you stupid?” As much as she would like to be Irish, she’s Chinese. If they asked her culture, she’d check American. If they ask her race, she checks Asian.
She didn’t check the box to get an advantage, but wanted to be honest and she IS racially Chinese. The school reports the statistics and she helps their statistics. She had no advantage or disadvantage in her admissions, though, because her school has plenty of URMs, and plenty of foreign students who are minorities too.