<p>Parents were both born in Haiti, but came at different times (my mom at 14, dad at 26). I was born in the US.
I don't really think I qualify as an URM because both my parents were foreign born, and this will become obvious on my application, but some (aka my friends) think otherwise.</p>
<p>Note; I already applied to Dartmouth ED and marked 'prefer not to answer'... I'm just wondering what I would be.</p>
<p>Even in the world of URMs there has been much debate because the majority of blacks attending elite private school are the children of recent immigrants from the Carribean or African and not many blacks who have multigenerational roots in the U.S. for whom the URM status was designed to help. Big article in Havard Magazine titled Roots and Race and how schools were going to do more to reach out to students whose families have been in the U.S. for generations:</p>
<p>Many applications are slowly making the change by asking where were you born and if you are a permanent resident or visa holder, they are asking for your country of origin).</p>
<p>In looking at 2 similiarl qualified URMs the tip would go to the black person who has multigenerational roots in the U.S. because this group of blacks is truly underrepresented in college admissions.</p>
<p>You have tossed your application in the ring all you can do from this point is to let the process play it self out.</p>