Does being from central america count as URm?

[wheatbread]

<p>i.e. being from guatemala?</p>

[wulfran]

<p>If you’re from Guatemala and you are now a US citizen or permanent resident (I think that’s who Stanford includes in their domestic applicant pool…), then you count as Hispanic, so you’re a URM. Assuming, of course, that you are Hispanic. If you’re white and you just grew up in Guatemala, well, it might make a nice essay, but tough cheese on the URM front.</p>

<p>If you’re just from Guatemala, period, then since you’re an international applicant- I guess you might be, technically speaking. But since you’re an international applicant, don’t count on any help from it.</p>

[firehose]

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Hispanics or Latinos are those people who classified themselves in one of the specific Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino categories listed on the Census 2000 questionnaire -“Mexican, Mexican Am., Chicano,” “Puerto Rican”, or “Cuban” -as well as those who indicate that they are “other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino.” Persons who indicated that they are “other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino” include those whose origins are from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Central or South America, the Dominican Republic or people identifying themselves generally as Spanish, Spanish-American, Hispanic, Hispano, Latino, and so on.

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<p>This comes from the thread on race in admissions (surprisingly it popped up on google when I went looking for something to support what I was going to say), it is originally from the Census Bureau. The key line is “include those whose origins are from Spain”. So you can be white and be hispanic.</p>

[wheatbread]

<p>i know i would count as hispanic, but i heard being just hispanic doesn’t necessarily count as being a urm (yes, i know you can be white and hispanic but im disregarding that)</p>

<p>i heard on CC that only mexicans and puerto ricans count as URMs which is why i wanted to clear this up</p>

[wheatbread]

<p>bump! !!!</p>