Brown PLME and URM status??

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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Does URM status help chances with Brown
PLME? I don’t want to be chanced but I l’d like to know if it helps me out, my SAT I is 710/690/760 (I plan on retaking to raise M above 700) and my SAT IIs are 780/750/730 (bio, chem, world hist)I’ve will have taken all the AP math/science courses ( except enviro) my school offers by the end of my senior year and I have A’s in all so far (my UW GPA is 4.0). I have the typical research experience, volunteering and shadowing ECs. I also created a medicine-related club at school that helps set kids up with shadowing and volunteering. I consider myself a really good writer (not trying to be arrogant) and based off of the critique I’ve received on my PLME essay drafts so far it seems like they’ll be really personal and unique. I’ve also participated in the MOSTEC program at MIT. So considering my ‘stats’ does URM status provide an advantage for PLME at all or just Brown admissions vs. a non-URM with similar stats.OH… and I’ll apply ED by the way if that makes a difference at all!!!

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Yes

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Absolutely. But that’s not really exclusive to Brown’s PLME by any means, but to medical school admissions overall in general, due to so few URMs (hence the name “underrepresented”) who are physicians, in relation to their percentage in the population.

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When will you find out your decision?

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@Roentgen would you consider someone who is an african american to be a URM, even if they are financially capable of paying the full tuition w/out financial aid?

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@allima To a great extent, ‘selection’ and ‘financial’ are 2 independent decisions and invariably 2 different offices/committee makes those 2 decisions. Yes, african american will be considered URM.

@britt43 Certainly your recent experience will help @allima and other future students, if you can share your college application process and where you got selected and where you finally enrolled and your reflections. Thanks.

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@allima, URM, means underepresented minority, and since African-Americans are underepresented in medicine compared to the percentage in the total U.S. population, you would be considered URM. It has nothing to do with financial status. @GoldenRock is correct, they are very much distinct.