<p>are Filipinos considered as URMs? </p>
<p>(Someone told me we are, and someone told me we aren't... and then SOMEONE told me were not even asian!)(any response is very much appreciated) </p>
<p>(please and thank yoU!)</p>
<p>(i'm not filipino-american okay. im just Filipino.)</p>
<p>Fellow Filipino here. :)</p>
<p>From what I've heard, it differs from place to place. Most LACs, yep, we're URMs (I'm guessing the high price tags deter a lot of our more thrifty instincts-- I know my parents nearly had a heart attack when I told them how much my favorite LAC costs without financial aid). At bigger universities (most notably the ones in Cali, since there's a huge Filipino residency there), probably not.</p>
<p>Hm. As for the asian v. pacific islander argument, it gets very tiring after a while. I've marked "asian" all my life, and when asked if I'm asian or not, I say I am. I guess it's a matter of preference (or even PC-ness).</p>
<p>Felllow fillipino here too. I have no idea though.</p>
<p>also filipino. i would argue that we're pacific islanders, as the philippines is a collection of islands in the pacific ocean. :/</p>
<p>we're definitely not an URM, however, because we're not black, hispanic, or native american.</p>
<p>filipino here too.
about the asian vs. pacific islander thing, it really could go both ways--
the philippines is in southeast asia and it's a bunch of islands in the pacific ocean.
a friend asked me if japan would be "pacific islander" because it's a collection of islands in the pacific, too. lol</p>
<p>definitely not a URM</p>
<p>taiwan would be too. i should mark that on my apps haha.</p>
<p>forgive me for my ignorance but what exactly do y'all mean when you'll say URM..</p>
<p>under-represented minority</p>
<p>Speaking for Amherst, Williams, & Swat... yes, you are URM... as for Ivies and the like...no clue.</p>
<p>thanks kctwister....</p>
<p>Like everyone else said: it probably depends.</p>
<p>I'm half filipino.</p>
<p>Filipinos are officially Asian. They are mostly of Malay descent, with Chinese, Japanese (and on some islands negrito) spliced in.</p>
<p>It is very important to note that Filipinos are not underperforming Asians. To the contrary, Filipinos are one of the highest asian performers in the US.</p>
<p>I just had to get that out of the way before some idiot implies Filipinos are underperformers:</p>
<p>Ranked by **bachelor's degree percentage<a href="page%2012,%20%5Burl=http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/censr-17.pdf">/b</a>:]<a href="http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/censr-17.pdf):%5B/url%5D">http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/censr-17.pdf):</a></p>
<ol>
<li>Chinese: 48.1%</li>
<li>Filipino: 43.8%</li>
<li>Korean: 43.8%</li>
<li>Japanese: 41.9%</li>
<li>Thai: 38.6%</li>
<li>Vietnamese: 19.4%</li>
<li>Cambodian: 9.2%</li>
<li>Laotian: 7.7%</li>
<li>Hmong: 7.5%</li>
</ol>
<p>I listed oriental Asians only.</p>
<p>Median Earnings:</p>
<p>Median Family Income (page 16):
Philippines: $65,189 (2nd highest among oriental asians)</p>
<p>Median earnings by sex (page 15):
Philippines:
Male: $35,560 (4th)
Female: $31,450 (3rd)</p>
<p>Poverty rate (page 17):
Philippines: 6.3% (1st! surprised the hell out of me)</p>
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<p>My main question is: do LACs group us in with other asians? Or do they consider specific asian races individually? </p>
<p>Most Filipinos stick to the coasts. I'm here at Washington University in ST. Louis and there are probably 12-20 Filipinos total in undergrad.</p>
<p>Taiwanese isn't a URM... counts as chinese, I really don't think any sort of asian gets a bump up in admissions one way or another. I deifnately wouldn't count of being a URM in any sense on getting you into college on way or another.</p>
<p>johnnydr87: Interesting stats. I am surprised that the Filipinos equal Koreans in terms of the bachelor degree recepients. I had always thought the Chinese and the Koreans were way up there, leaving everybody else behind inthe dust.</p>