<p>I pretty much do what maxellis suggested.</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat as SProctor. I’m a dual citizen of South Africa/US and I’m fluent in Afrikaans. </p>
<p>Colleges object to people misrepresenting themselves. With my blonde hair and blue eyes, I know I’m not what they’re looking for when they say ‘African-American’. However, I usually leave race blank, if I can. I think culture is more important than pigmentation, and that race is basically a social construct and shouldn’t work in my favour or against it. </p>
<p>I did mark African-American on my PSATs. You wouldn’t believe all of the brochures and summer program offers I received.</p>