<p>I know of a student who was in a very similar situation. One parent was from India, the other a non-hispanic from the States, and the student was born in Puerto Rico and lived her entire pre-college life there. Bi-lingual in Spanish and English. In her college applications she self-identified as hispanic but went on to explain her background more thoroughly elsewhere in the common app so that the colleges could make their own decisions about how they wanted to classify her. She had no problems from the colleges. I think the thing is to be honest; colleges know many people don’t fit nicely into the boxes the application provides.</p>