Will my ethnicities give me an advantage in admissions?

Applying to College
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<p>I am:</p>

<p>50% "default" white.
25% Hispanic white.
25% Hispanic Native American.</p>

<p>Which in turn means I'm 75% white, 25% Native American, and 50% Hispanic, if we're looking at it Census-style (if we want to get specific, the Hispanic part of me is Guatemalan). I have a few questions about all this:</p>

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<li><p>My Native American ancestry does not come from the U.S., and I could never become part of a U.S. tribe. I'm even concerned that it'll be totally ignored because of that. Will the government and other organizations still throw money at me, even though I'm not a "conventional" Native American?</p></li>
<li><p>When I'm only allowed to pick one race on a form, which should I pick?</p></li>
<li><p>Will affirmative action in admissions bless me because of my clusterduck of ethnicities?</p></li>
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2

<p>Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. If the forms follow the requirements of the US Dept. of Education, there will be two sets of questions: one for race, and one for ethnicity.</p>

3

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<li>Yes, you’ll probably get a bit of an admissions boost.</li>
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