Students of Color 30.8%
African-American 7.2%
Asian American 13.0%
Latino 6.4%
Native American 3.4%
Multi-Racial 0.8%
This is Dartmouths students of color stats. I am multi racial, a mix of caucasian and asian. Multi racial people are only .8%. Thus, am I considered urm??
<p>If you mean will you get a URM boost for being white/asian, no.</p>
<p>You might be considered a student of color, if that's how you self-identify. But not all students of color are "underrepresented minorities" (URMs). URMs are those from racial or ethnic groups (African-American, Latino, Native American) whose numbers in selective colleges and universities are well below their share of the college-age population.</p>
<p>on the application can I put down multi racial because I am a person of two races??</p>
<p>Yes, but they ask you to specify.</p>
<p>This is where I am immediately proven wrong, but I doubt seriously if they have a box on the application for multi racial. What you listed in the OP was the way they presented the results of people marking the boxes. I would expect the boxes to be more race oriented (black, hispanic, native american, white, asian). Let me know if I'm wrong. You would mark the white and the asian box and at that school, it would not give you a bump.</p>
<p>Yes, I have never seen a "specify" box for checking "multiracial"....it's just implied (or maybe they don't care).</p>
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<p>It would depend on your racial make up. You state that you are asian and caucasian, so yes you would be a person of color but no you would not be considered an underrepresented minority because the majority of the students are caucasian and the majority of the students of color are asian.</p>