<p>Vandy- definitely include that you are part native american. If you aren´t involved in the culture, don´t try to play it up too much, but it won´t hurt you to include it.</p>
<p>While I´m not sure if Hmong and other southeastern asians are considered URM, I am pretty sure that they are not considered on the same basis as Chinese, Indians, Koreans, and Japanese.</p>
<p>You don’t get to break down your ethnic groups into super micro country specific ones. That would be like me, as a Native American, saying “is my tribe more under-represented than most of the others?”</p>
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<p>People of Hmong descent aren’t included in the most conservative definitions of URMs, but some other more liberal ones seem to include them. [This</a> article<a href=“you’ll%20have%20to%20click%20on%20%22PDF%22%20to%20read%20it”>/url</a> includes people of Hmong, Vietnamese, and Cambodian descent as URMs.</p>
<p>ZFanatic:</p>
<p>What are you talking about? According to [url=<a href=“http://www.amsa.org/div/]Enriching”>Divya Lahori - AMSA]Enriching</a> Medicine Through Diversity](<a href=“http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121520757/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0]This”>http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121520757/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0) :</p>
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<p>There’s at least two “specific” ones - namely, Mexican-Americans and people from Puerto Rico. Granted, this is a somewhat outdated definition of URM, but I don’t see what the problem of identifying people from specific nations or cultures as URMs is.</p>
<p>I meant as in like someone from the Asian continent, who will clearly be labeled as not being an URM, trying to say the vast majority of Asians applying to med school are from China or whatever, and asking if Japan is an exception. </p>
<p>While I agree that Puerto Rico is a small group, Mexican American certainly is not.</p>
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<p>Did you refer to the former two, i.e., African Americans and Mexican Americans?</p>
<p>I always wonder why mainland Puerto Ricans are considered as URMs. I am very ignorant here. Please educate me.</p>
<p>There are a lot of Mexican Amerians in U.S. There are a lot of patients with that ethnic group. More importantly, they have a significant voting power.</p>
<p>Hmm… ZFanatic, Since you are from Dallas Tx, I bet you must have noticed their political power to influence the secondary education funding (so called “Robin Hood”) and college admission (the top 10 percents rule – Is it now the top 8.75 or top 8.5 percents – after the “rich” empire fights back? And I think the political fight for the secondary education funding has been on and off for the last 20 years or so and has not lost any momentum yet.). It may not be a coincidence that only California, Texas and Florida have the top X percent rule for college admission.</p>
<p>cool fun fact (note this is not an arguement related to the OP’s topic): there are actually less japanese americans than native americans or puerto ricans</p>
<p>Japanese americans make up 0.4% of the US population.
Native Americans make up 1.37% of the US population.
Puerto Ricans make up 1.3% of total U.S Stateside population. (notice stateside)
Mexican Americans make up 9% of the U.S. population
Whites make up 73.94% of the total U.S. population.</p>
<p>source wikipedia</p>
<p>Definitely, mcat2. If anything, blacks and mexicans are about as populous around here as white people. I can’t remember the exact projection, but sometime in the near future, whites will no longer be the majority in Texas (and maybe even California and Arizona, but I don’t know that for sure).</p>