<p>I don’t know if my daughter answered correctly last year, but she is a Plebe, so our answer must not have kept her out.</p>
<p>Rhetorical question: even though you “grew up in an ordinary American home,” do you know enough about your ancestors to know where they came from, or whether they were Native Americans? In other words, would you consider yourself to have a __<strong><em>-American heritage, where _</em></strong> could be just about anything (Irish, Native American, Hispanic, Bantu, etc.) If your ancestors came from one or two specific cultures, I would list those as your ethnic background. If you really don’t know, you could always enter “American” or “unknown.”</p>