<p>You know how in undergraduate college applications, Asian applicants are looked more critically than those of other races... to keep diversity in schools, I guess..</p>
<p>Does the same hold true for medical schools as well?</p>
<p>What about being a URM? Does that help, somehow??</p>
<p>Doubt it. Med school admissions are based mostly on research rather than other factors. Not sure to the second question-- although I’m guessing AA is less common for med school.</p>
<p>"Doubt it. Med school admissions are based mostly on research rather than other factors. " - What this mean? If you mean Research as EC, than it is not correct. Your appl, will be pitched if you are not meeting school min. for GPA + MCAT score, they will not even look at it, they have thousands for 170 - 220 spots, they simply do not have tiume. I could have misunderstood, more detailed explanation would clarify your statement.
URM is definitely a huge help. there are very very few…</p>
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<p>:confused: If being a URM is such a “huge help”, then why are there “very very few”?? Your statement is self contradictory. </p>
<p>In reality, being born a URM is a huge disadvantage to ever being a doctor(that’s what URM means), however, if you are one of the very very few(wrt their numbers in the general population) borderline competitive URM medical school applicants, then you might have a marginal advantage being admitted.</p>
<p>At many/most/all med schools, Asians are ORMs.</p>
<p>My niece, who is half Chinese, and the other half is Italian/French, is considering putting White as her nationality when she applies. I think the rules are that she can choose either one. She has an italian first name and an Italian last name, so her app isn’t going to seem odd as White.</p>
<p>reality, being born a URM is a huge disadvantage to ever being a doctor(that’s what URM means)</p>
<p>Actually, being born into a low income family, regardless of race, is a huge disadvantage. Simply being born a URM is not necessarily a “huge disadvantage.” There are many affluent URMs and their children are NOT at a “huge disadvantage” as they attend pricey private K-12 and are driven to school in luxury cars.</p>
<p>"If being a URM is such a “huge help”, then why are there “very very few”?? Your statement is self contradictory. "</p>
<p>-Huge help is only one variable. There are many others. I do not think that person with GPA = 1 (as an example) could be accepted even if person is URM. I have not mentioned that URM status will guarantee a spot, I said it is a huge help. I do not see how one variable out of many can result in statement being flagged as contradictory. Actually there are prominent people who are born into great poverty and who achieve way above. Which leads me to the next contradictory statement below about ORMs with many of them not only were born to very poor and disadvantaged families, but many had to take care of parents who had harder time adjusting than kids. I personally witnessed several of them and was very pleasantly shocked and amazed by their great achievements. Yes, I am talking about Asians, not all, but great number of them.</p>
<p>Here is another contradictory statement - ORMs have to be better than others, they have to work harder, but they get accepted in huge numbers, way above the percentage in general population.</p>
<p>Here’s the gpa/MCAT data:</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/161696/data/table19.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/161696/data/table19.pdf</a></p>
<p>MiamiDAP- I love the name but I think my Miami and your Miami are in different parts of the country. :)</p>
<p>I believe what you are detailing is a good work ethic, rather than outcomes that are dictated as a result of race/ethnicity. Here in Miami (FL), I have witnessed many first generation Americans do very well. However, they were not superior to American kids. Rather, they had an exceptional work ethic.</p>
<p>^We are exactly on the same page. Agree 100%. while beingin completely different part of the country, apparently situation is absolutely the same.</p>