<p>It means colleges believe that your race is a bad tree that produces good apples every blue moon so they want the few good ones out of the bunch.</p>
<p>In other words, they feel so bad for your race they let you in with lower standards.
Usually BLACK or Hispanic. But do not take this as a bad thing. If Harvard wants you because you’re black with a 2150 SAT, take advantage of it, become famous and prove the stereotypes wrong.</p>
<p>I exaggerated a bit there^</p>
<p>URM is really unrepresented minority.It means they don’t get enough people of a race to fit their…“Diversity” quota. Which means it’s a lot easier for a minority to get into a college than say an asian or white.</p>
<p>You still need to be Sharp swiss to get into a topcollege, but you have a better chance of being accepted.</p>
<p>I guess, I don’t fit, lol. My parents are South Asian… Oh well.</p>
<p>I got into the University of Michigan out of state. 3.3 GPA and 1550 SAT. Granted this was 2 years ago and I was also wait listed. I’m an African American male and my parents make over 200k annually. I also got into 10 out of the 15 schools I applied to. Hope this provides you with some motivation. I had good essays and EC’s and recommendations.</p>
<p>Being Asian probably will hurt your chances. But you should still give the SAT another shot and try to improve your GPA. If that doesn’t work you can try a community college for a couple of years then transfer. You should use that time to get your grades up.</p>
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<p>I think your best bet is 2 years at a CC ,then transfer . And always take an opportunity to do your best , like studying for SAT s !!</p>
<p>Oh wow, that’s kinda wrong 
Being Asian hurts my chances… I don’t really consider myself Asian honestly. I mean, when you think of Asians, you think of Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese… Maybe even Indians.</p>
<p>Yea well you don’t have to consider yourself anything. But that’s just how admissions are.</p>
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Lawl, but you’d be fine with this if you were Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Indian?</p>
<p>You’ll have a chance at NYU-Poly if you write an astounding essay and manage to score around 2100 on your SAT to compensate for your low GPA.</p>
<p>Okay thanks I suppose. </p>
<p>There should be another category with “South Asian”, heck I’d rather be American… Cause I consider myself American.</p>