<p>More anecdotal evidence: kid at my school has one Hispanic great-grandfather. The kid now has his Hispanic last name. Even though he’s culturally white and isn’t culturally Hispanic in any way at all, he identified himself as Hispanic. He got into Harvard, Stanford, and West Point. Nobody’s going to check his self-identification. Yes, it’s deceptive. But he beat out all of the other Asians (who are completely shafted in the process) and it worked.</p>