<p>Your interest in the culture, your appearance, your name has nothing to do with it. You can check the box if you s please, as you are 1/16th Hispanic in that you have a great great grandparent who was Mexican or enough pieces of other ancestors to come up with that. Most schools don’t care anyways. What kind of schools are on your list? I can tell you flat out that given the 3000 or so college and I’m not even counting CCs, trade schools, etc, most could not care less if you are Hispanic or not At some of the you might not even be URM. Where this can matter the most is at the most selective schools and for certain monies. For some such funds, you may be asked to provide some lineage proof, though I’ve never heard of that for anything other than American Indian. </p>