<p>Colleges ask for your race. Your racial background. The race of your ancestors. It has nothing to do with you thinking that you’re “Native American”. Unless your ancestors crossed the Bering Strait tens of thousands of years ago, you are not Native American.</p>
<p>There are many ways for the college to find out that you are lying. They could find out through the interview, through your counselor, or numerous other ways. And if they find out, and they will, you are screwed.</p>