She was raised in "total, white society" on Long Island, and says she didn't think of herself as black or white sides until she came to college.

"Your race wasn't an issue until you hit the real world," she says.

At Harvard, however, Ajudua hasn't "really identified with the black community," though she says they have been accepting.

"You come to college and you're supposed to find your own way," she says. "I found it was hard for me to do that."

Now, Ajudua says she simply wants to be herself.

"I want to be like, 'We think of you as Stephanie,'" she says. "That's who I want to be and who I'm proud of being."

Doshi says he has come to a similar conclusion. Doshi, a member of the Multicultural Issues Forum--a group which aims to raise awareness of diversity and tolerance of multicultural issues on campus--says he sees his identity as "peripheral," though he has become more conscious of his identity since coming to Harvard.

"I've always wrestled with my identity and who I am," says Doshi, who father is from Gujarat in western India and whose mother is from Quebec, though her family is from Lebanon.