@Argonian183 I had no intention of identifying as only Native, that’s only a quarter of my race 
I have actually started the process already of enrolling in the Cherokee nation and I have all the documents necessary to prove that my grandfather was coerced off of the reservation by a white adoptive family.
If I weren't applying to college this would still be of great importance to me. See my grandfather was adopted by a white family who turned out to be Mormon. These Mormons relocated to the Mormon facility in Mexico where he met my grandmother and they raised my mother in the Mormon religion. Then my mother and my father met, married and joined the compound style church that I had to run away from when I was 17. So almost all the struggles I have had in my life can be traced back to my grandfather being basically kidnapped from his Cherokee reservation and forced to assimilate to a new white culture.
As far as college admissions go, I am already Hispanic so the race "boost" if you will, is not that big of a deal to me and have enough confidence in my grades and test scores that I'm not relying on something like that to get me into school. On a side note anyone relying on something like that is probably going to come up short anyways. I had spent a lot of time hiding my ethnicity and in the church I went to me and my mother were treated horribly because they saw us as dirty. I am not inclined to hide anything about who I am or about how having Native ancestors who were forcefully assimilated impacted the entire course of my life. At this same time, I don't want to be penalized for it by colleges thinking of me as one of those people who claim Native status when the last Native ancestor they had was rumored back in the 1700's.