Both parents are alums who pursued both undergrad and graduate degrees at the school. One was VERY well-known on campus (I’m staying vague for privacy’s sake). I have other family members who have gone to school there and some who have worked at the school and its branches, for lack of a better term. I’m a URM (and female), both in the realm of university itself and even more-so, within the field I’ll be pursuing. I am disabled (not severely, but it is mental). I am part of the LGBTQ+ community. I’ve been through some pretty bad economic and family dynamics and as a result was intermittently homeless for about a year. but yea how much are these things considered? I would consider myself qualified otherwise (on grounds of stats), and I’m not asking whether or not I’ll be accepted. I would just like to know how much the school looks upon these things. My whole life people have been in my face about “how I’ll win at affirmative action”, so I guess it’d be cool to really see what’s up with it. Miami is a school I’ve always loved and to which I’ve always aspired, and with the specific situation of legacy, I thought it’d be interesting to see where it stands on these things as representation for college as a whole (although I am aware schools have respective approaches).
also forgot to put this but i’m also a first-generation American