<p>I had a classmate who did precisely what you are thinking of doing for undergrad admissions and got away with it by gaining admission to an HYPS school despite some eyerolls from some of us high school classmates. Though he is ethnically Indian, he claimed he was “African-American” because his family migrated and lived in East Africa for a generation before emigrating to the US. </p>
<p>Don’t know whether law school admissions or more importantly, the local bar association’s character and fitness assessment will be as tolerant about this.</p>