<p>do u guys know if people from Spain (as in Europe) get URM status?</p>
<p>do they get a significant boost?</p>
<p>no. ..........</p>
<p>Who exactly qualifies as a URM?
I know we've been over this before, but I'm still not clear.
So is it just African-Americans and non-European Hispanics?</p>
<p>it should definitely be done through socioeconomic background, not skin color. there are many affluent african american families, whereas there may be poor immigrant asian families who are dirt poor.</p>
<p>yeah but i think the point of accepting urms is to boost the number of students that are, in fact, under-represented.
doesn't matter if they are poor or disadvantaged.</p>
<p>Here's what I heard:</p>
<p>URMs = African-Americans, Hispanics, Pacific Islander, and some Asian ethnicites (Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Thai).</p>
<p>Don't know whether it's completely accurate.</p>
<p>Whaaaat?
Filipinos and Vietnamese people are URMS?
wow that's new to me.</p>
<p>You'd think Bangladeshis and even South Koreans would be more under-represented than they are.</p>
<p>(More under-represented teehee. That sounds grammatically incorrect)</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure spanish ppl arent considered URM...</p>
<p>how come africans don't fall under that list?</p>
<p>Because if they are not African-Americans they are internationals...</p>
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