<p>Are there any others on CC lol?</p>
<p>Also, I want to know if we get URM Status in the USA.</p>
<p>^ haha u wish- where are u going to tick the minority box- isnt that only allowed for us citizens?? Only if you are from an underrepresented country which sadly you are not. In your personal statement you could talk about your multicultural experience or something like that- are you like native canadian or an immigrant</p>
<p>I doubt that anyone here can tell you for sure. We are just students ourselves.</p>
<p>Here’s what I can tell you. In the Common Data Set ethnicity statistics, you would be classified under “non-residential alien” instead of your ethnicity.</p>
<p>I’m an immigrant, I was born in Nigeria and have lived in Scotland, Norway, New York (only for like 1 year), and Canada.</p>
<p>And actually in the common app, there is a place to state your ethnicity, so obviously it will be taken into account.</p>
<p>^ I guessed you were a Nigerian immigrant. Anyways trust me it will not be taken significantly into account if you are applying to the top schools. You could tick the box in the common app but you go to the international pile and get admitted in the international pile with all the excessive competition. I worked in an undergraduate admissions office once so i know. Only if your country of origin- aka if you lived a significant part of your life in an underrepresented country is when your country matters. </p>
<p>You are not going to get the URM status of an AA, though you might get a tiny bump. Tick the common app box though, but its not going to help u that much. Looking at your past posts it seems you score well on the SATs (Clocking close to 2250 on practise tests). I know a Nigerian-Canadian at Harvard who graduated in 2010- he had around that score so i dont think you should be too worried. Except you are aiming for somethin greater than harvard lol.</p>
<p>However- its your experience as an immigrant that would be interesting. Seems you have an interesting background so you could use that to your advantage.</p>
<p>I don’t get it, I’m still black lol. It’s not like Africans look any different than African-Americans.</p>
<p>I think there are two factors:</p>
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<li><p>You would not be counted as African-American in college statistics (due to your international status), so the college cannot “show you off” the same way.</p></li>
<li><p>Affirmative action is supposed to counteract generations’ worth of discrimination against certain groups. Your family may have not faced that same adversity.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Again, I don’t know whether or not you would get an affirmative action boost. The above statements are just hypothetical explanations in the event that you would be treated differently from blacks raised in the US. I assume that each college has its own goals and policies in that regard.</p>