<p>Iranian people classify as white. You are welcome to mark nothing at all on any ethnic identification form you find as part of the college admission process. </p>
<p>The full FAQ on the subject </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/568159-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-2-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/568159-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-2-a.html</a> </p>
<p>is posted in the College Admissions Forum. It includes lots of links to the official federal definitions of the categories, to federal regulations about how colleges are to ask ethnicity questions as of next year, and a LARGE list of colleges that admit a lot of students who are “race/ethnicity unknown” because the students didn’t fill out the forms.</p>