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<p>any services at UC for the underrepresented?</p>
<p>Lol I don’t think people knew what this meant :)</p>
<p>■■■■■ i know i was laughing.</p>
<p>I’ll chat with you. Right now there are 30 views… if it keeps getting bumped up to the top, more people will look at the thread and google it lol.</p>
<p>What’s your heritage?</p>
<p>black/japanese/jewish</p>
<p>57!..</p>
<p>Hey I’m a urm. It’s been a while since the last time I’ve been on cc so i had to think about what urm meant.
I’m black by the way.</p>
<p>I think I’m half URM but maybe not… depends on the definition of underrepresented.</p>
<p>I’m a light skinned Mexican, Spaniard, and Native American :)</p>
<p>Oh and to answer your initial question; there’s the whole AAP thing at UCLA. I also got an e-mail about some transfer class at UCB that helps “URM’s” transition into Cal. There was also that Razza and Mecha invite from UCLA as well.</p>
<p>Sorry, I haven’t seen much about the other UC’s.</p>
<p>What is considered URM?</p>
<p>spanish, black/aa, native american & i think pacific islander</p>
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<p>it depends. If we’re talking about colleges, then i’d say it means not having like 30% or more of your race contribute to the school’s makeup. This is why Asians, although a minority in the U.S., at least in relation to certain schools are not considered a minority since they make up a large chunk of certain schools. For points of relevence, i’ll just stick to the UCs where they make up 50% at berkeley, 40% at UCLA, 40% at UCSD, and 50% at UCI, which is pretty impressive considering that i think asians only make up like 3% of the US’ population. </p>
<p>at UCLA, at least, blacks only make up like 3% and i think hispanics make up like 10-15%, so there are way more asians and whites at the UCs, at least, than other URMs. The whole point is that the universities want diversity. Since the UCs are public schools, they should be serving the people of california since everyone contributes to them. Whether this is actually true or not i cannot say but i wouldn’t be surprised if the regents get put under pressure to make things more “diverse”.</p>
<p>I remember reading online that if it was permitted, our schools would be completely filled with students from south east asia since their test scores destroy ours, and our universities destroy theirs. While that isn’t supported by data, i think that’s nevertheless true.</p>
<p>@ beyphy</p>
<p>That’s true that the UC system is public and that it should be servicing CA people. Just as a side note though, the UC system was primarily established to focus on the top 10% of CA HS graduates (not indicative of the entire graduating population) as compared to the CSU system. Generally, the distribution of UC enrollment somewhat resembles that of the overall top 10% of HS or transferring class.</p>
<p>“spanish, black/aa, native american & i think pacific islander”</p>
<p>Aww, lame. So Middle-Eastern people (Persian, Turkish, Arab) and Afghan/Pakistani/Indian get the shaft, huh?</p>
<p>I’m really hoping the URM thing helps when I apply to med school haha</p>
<p>Might as well milk it if you can.</p>
<p>@Hayward, & them. I don’t know the exact races, geez. </p>
<p>@Ella, my words exactly! Which med school btw?</p>
<p>Too bad once you are out of college being an URM starts hurting again. IIRC the unemployment rate of URM are significantly higher than White/Asian workers and they get paid less =(</p>
<p>@UCKitty, I really want to do the prime program at UCSF or Geffen/Drew. How about you?</p>
<p>@Ella89 we’re definitely on the same page lol</p>