<p>Hello. Everyone on these threads talks about URM status and claims that it helps an applicant a great deal. I have gone through the statistics and I have scrolled through the profiles of the accepted, deferred, and rejected from previous classes. I have so far been unable to find a profile by someone who is Native American. I am a registered member of a federally recognized tribe and I am trying to find the average profile of a Native American Yalie.</p>
<p>Unfortunately only about 1% of Yale's student body is Native American, or at least identifies as such. Now, only about 3% of the country actually is Native American so the low number is not entirely unexpected. But I wonder why there is such a disparity? Is it because there is such a low number of applicants to Yale? Or even applicants who are qualified?</p>
<p>Does anyone know how many Native Americans apply to Yale each year? How many of them are accepted/rejected? And if anyone has a profile of a Native American applicant who was accepted?</p>
<p>Well... nobody really knows the stats for Native Americans. If one percent of the Yale student body is Native American, and about 1300 maticulate in fall every year, that tells you how many get in. </p>
<p>No exact stats but, I have heard that Native Americans enjoy great URM status at Yale. However, URM status will not make up for a horrendous GPA or scores. So few Native Americans apply/get in that the URM thing is not even a controversy... </p>
<p>Well... good luck.</p>
<p>There were a couple of Native American posters last year, but they must not have posted their outcomes on the main thread. You could try searching "Native American" in the Yale forum, find their names and check their posting histories.</p>
<p>I don't believe that URM status helps "a great deal". It definitely helps, but because schools like HYPSM get their pick of the most outstanding URMs in the country, the profiles of the URMs are very impressive. I do think Native Americans get the biggest advantage from URM status.</p>
<p>I have actually tried to search Native American to expedite the process, but for some reason it searchs "native" and "american." So I get almost every post and there is never anything pertinent to what I'm actually looking for.</p>