<p>Helping a friend apply to nursing, 25% puerto rican. </p>
<p>My questions are...</p>
<p>does that count as an URM?</p>
<p>how much of a boost does that give? (I know the URM consideration order goes something like native american > blacks> hispanic)</p>
<p>and I attend U of M right now, so be brutally honest with your responses</p>
<p>Yeah, they’re Hispanic/Latino…but idk how much of a boost being 25% would give o_O</p>
<p>Yeah I’m sure it is, like Puerto ricans are considered hispanic… Mexicans are considred hispanic etc…</p>
<p>is 25% greater than 1/8? If so you are considered a URM.</p>
<p>^ Was that a rhetorical question? Because yep, it’s greater than 1/8th o_O</p>
<p>Yea it was. I knew the answer, I just wanted him to answer the question for himself.</p>
<p>Ah ok, that’s what I thought =]</p>
<p>Doesn’t the state of Michigan have a voter initiative on this subject regarding university admission? </p>
<p>For the more general questions, see </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/809185-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-6-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/809185-race-college-admission-faq-discussion-6-a.html</a></p>
<p>Dont know about that… either way, affirmative action is kind of still there, just not publicly announced</p>
<p>what about brown people like indians and pakistanis? i’m a pakistani, so if i’m an URM, do my chances of getting in go up?</p>
<p>^NO
they go down if anything lol</p>
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<p>Someone might want to do a legal review before making that assumption.</p>
<p>Very Much so! Especially at a school like UMich, because the state of Michigan has very little Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans have the lowest college matriculation rate for Hispanics, so it definitely will help you regardless of where you apply.</p>
<p>The question still remains whether or not Michigan gives a “boost” for ethnicity or race, which seems to be prohibited by current Michigan law.</p>