Are Asians considered a URM at Haverford?

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<p>Tried this is in the Haverford forum, no luck, so trying here...Since Haverford is about 10% Asian, not in the single-digits like some LACs but well below the unofficial elite-college ceiling of 20%, are Asians considered URMs in admissions? </p>

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<p>Asian (non-Hispanic, not two or more races) people comprise only 4.0% of people age 15-19 and 4.2% of people age 20-24 in the US in 2009, based on numbers in <a href=“https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0010.pdf”>https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0010.pdf&lt;/a&gt; .</p>

<p>So 10% Asian will not make Asian a URM by the literal definition. However, the literal definition might not always reflect the school’s policy.</p>

<p>In any case, you should not count on possible holistically determined URM preferences when assessing reach/match/safety, especially safety. This applies to all possible URMs, since people have a tendency to overestimate the effect of such a preference, or assume that such exists when there is no such preference at a given school.</p>