<p>Do you have to be a minority to apply?</p>
<p>No…</p>
<p>I think you’d have to be a minority to be accepted, or from an underrepresented group.</p>
<p>^^^
Why do you think that?</p>
<p>You have to be an URM (underrepresented minority). This isn’t related just to racial minorities, but includes socioeconomic ones as well (they generally limit this to those from the geographic region of Appalachia).</p>