how important is it to Stanford to be URM

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<p>I hear all this talk of AA, and I am going to be applying to Stanford for class of 2017. plz help out</p>

<p>i wanna know how important urm status is to them?</p>

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<p>this deserves a big IGNORE.
u are a freshman. whether you are a URM or not isn’t going to change, so why care?</p>

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<p>Major ■■■■■…</p>

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<p>lets just say I wish I were black!</p>

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<p>sigh, just to answer the q, it helps. lol.</p>

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<p>Don’t stress, dude. You can’t change your ethnicity, so just do the best you can with what you’ve got!</p>

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<p>I guess from the other responses it is pretty significant.</p>

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<p>Posted from another thread, but just to be clear in this thread, it’s no more important than at schools like Harvard, Yale, etc. Look at the % students for each minority</p>

<p>Ethnicity - Harvard % - Yale % - Stanford %</p>

<p>African American - 8 - 8.5 - 7.3
Native American - 1 - 1.3 - 1.3
Asian or Pacific Islander - 17.2 - 14.3 - 17.8
Hispanic - 7.4 - 8.5 - 15.7</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/Provost_-_FB2009_10_Sec02_Enrollments.pdf[/url]”>http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/Provost_-_FB2009_10_Sec02_Enrollments.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/oir/cds.pdf[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/oir/cds.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
[Stanford</a> University: Common Data Set 2010-2011](<a href=“http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2010.html]Stanford”>http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2010.html)</p>

<p>The only noticeable difference is in the Hispanic population, which is predictable, given that almost 40% of the state is Hispanic (coincidentally, roughly 40% of the student body comes from California).</p>

<p>On the whole, though, URM status is not “pretty significant” or even “important”; as the links above say, it’s “considered,” nothing more, and not being an URM will not harm your application (after all, the largest portion of all these student bodies is not a minority).</p>

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<p>i hate to be one of those people…but…
“Posted from another thread, but just to be clear in this thread, it’s no more important than at schools like Harvard, Yale, etc. Look at the % students for each minority”
is not a factually sound statement (i hate statistics and its judgment of significance)</p>

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<p>Do you want to expand on that…?</p>

<p>Statistics provide a much better basis for judgment than “I saw X, Y, and Z on collegeconfidential and so therefore it is this way.”</p>

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<p>I am not going to comment on the issue.
However,the statistics provided in the above post were quite irrelevant.</p>

<p>The question asks for how race effects admissions, not the ethnic composition of those admitted. So the unless you can supplement the ethnic breakdowns of admitted students with those that applied to those schools, then <em>no real conclusions can be reached.</em></p>

<p>Just a technicality of logic, you’re saying that being an URM applying to Stanford, is "no more important than " URM applying to Harvard or Yale, but that doesn’t answer the question. (You’re only begging the question which then becomes, “how important is being an URM when applying to H or Y”)</p>

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<p>Thanks for letting me know–I couldn’t understand what the original post was asking for. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>As I suggested in my first post, it was an addition to what was asked, since I answered the original question in the last paragraph (as per the official policies that Stanford publishes–it is “considered”):</p>

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<p>As suggested by the stats themselves, they’re simply facts that support the more general conclusion that HYPS are all about the same in their ‘preferences’ toward URMs (I should have been clearer about the context of the other post where these stats came from–‘Stanford being perceived as more receptive to minority students than others’). There’s not much to read into them beyond that, in case you thought I was. ;)</p>

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<p>@phantasmagoric: just because the end numbers are similar, doesn’t mean they prefer students similarly. unless you have data about the applicant pool, as well, your numbers have little value to the statement you made.</p>

<p>oh and by the way, the fact that they say race/ethnicity is “considered” does nothing to show whether the different institutions weigh race differently.</p>

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<p>I wasn’t basing my judgment of similarity solely on these statistics, and offered them separately, but thanks again for assuming I can’t make logical deductions like you can.</p>

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<p>I didn’t say that it was definitive, but it’s the only official word on it, and thus it’s an answer to the question.</p>