<p>I am half white and half Indian. For the Common App, I am able to select Indian as a sub category of Asian. For non Common App applications that do not have this sub category, such as Texas, what should I do?</p>
<p>Pick white or Asian. You’re not any different in admissions for being brown instead of yellow if you choose to be Asian.</p>
<p>You can pick other.</p>
<p>If I were to check multiple boxes, should I check white and Asian? Or would it be more beneficial to only check white?</p>
<p>There is no “other” category, which is why I am curious.</p>
<p>You can leave it blank too. I don’t think the box you check will make a difference.</p>
<p>Can you leave it blank? </p>
<p>Ok then check white and Asian or leave it blank .</p>
<p>Does the Texas app have separate boxes for white and Asian? If you identify as both, you can check both. If you want to learn more about whether identifying as Asian will make admissions harder for you, check the college search area of the forum for posts by Asian students. </p>
<p>Will your surname identify you as Indian?</p>
<p>Unless your name is Patel I wouldn’t worry. Some Indian names are not easily identifiable. I mean some people don’t really know.</p>
<p>@DrGoogle Hello! Can I ask you a quick question? So I was born in India, but last name is from white ancestry. Can I mark myself as mixed, would that be easier than Asian? Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>But I thought there is no mixed category, such as other. You can leave it blank. </p>
<p>Indian <em>is</em> Asian.</p>
<p>I think he knows that but want to avoid checking Asian.</p>
<p>Check both if that is what you identify with. Honestly, it’s not going to make that much difference in the long run and your guidance counselor may already have an ethnicity marked in their school reports and transcript, so check with them how you are identified on there. Considering India is in Asia, that would be considered in that category, but make the choice that you will be comfortable with</p>
<p>We are of mixed race, and haven’t run into this. If there was a “prefer not to answer” but no “other” or “multiracial” category, my son would pick “prefer not to answer”. He picks “white” and “Asian” otherwise (he has a third race but we feel there isn’t enough to identify).</p>