<p>so is this considered an urm:</p>
<p>female born in the U.S. to immigrant parents: mother from Mexico, father from Pakistan.</p>
<p>can speak fluent spanish
and can speak some urdu(dad's native tongue)</p>
<p>and will this help at all?</p>
<p>you willl put mexican american and probably be accepted.</p>
<p>Being Mexican-American gives you an edge. Please don't assume it will guarantee your admission anywhere. If however, you are "high-achieving" and URM that's really good. And if your parents did not go to college, that's even better. If your family is "low-income" you are even more attractive.</p>
<p>...dont get carried away about with the myth that every low-income urm will beat out a urm with means......not all urms are poor, and not all poor people are urms....urm, wealthy or not, are sought after</p>
<p>read A is for Admission. rickster99 is right. It shows two rich african amercicans and puerto ricans getting accepted, even though they are rich.</p>
<p>I just despise it when people take advantage of their URM status...like if someone is 1/16 Hispanic but 15/16 Italian, yet they mark on their applications that they are Hispanic. That is just unfair to the rest of us who are 100% truthfully representing our nationalities :(</p>
<p>hispanic isn't a huge boost though. not like puerto rican, mexican american, and native american is.</p>
<p>Why not? My boyfriend is 100% Ecuadorian and I think that being a minority will most definitely give him an edge in the admissions process and isn't a whole lot different from Mexican American or Puerto Rican...Of course Native American is a whole other dimension.</p>
<p>yeah, amnesia, we already had a huge debate about this...there are more mexican-americans applying than any other type of hispanics...........they want latinos period...i'd even venture to guess mexican-americans have a similar, if not lower rate of acceptance than south american hispanics...</p>
<p>I don't know how true this is, but I heeaaaaaard that black males and latino females are the most underrepresented, sought after students by most elite colleges.</p>
<p>damn, i need to get a sex change</p>
<p>i disagree. from my extensive research, hispanics have a harder time getting accepted then mexican americans.</p>
<p>i have seen far more hispanics on this board than mexican americans.</p>
<p>yeah right...research schmesearch...i could say the exact opposite, and neither of us would have any reliable evidence to prove our claims...</p>
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<blockquote> <p>"I just despise it when people take advantage of their URM status"</p> </blockquote>
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<p>I second that, jli. I know some students who are of Indian descent, but because their Indian parents were born in a part of Africa, they put down African American on all their applications.</p>
<p>I know a kid whos father is an immigrant from south africa...</p>
<p>so if it says african american and makes no distinction based on color/region...guess what?</p>
<p>haha</p>
<p>Won't they be called out in their interviews? I bet that's the REAL reason they interview us!</p>
<p>bobbobbob my friend comes from South Africa...he even speaks Afrikkans (sp?). I wonder if he will mark down African-American though? I suppose it isn't ethical at all because he is very white.</p>
<p>Hmm...I'm an Indian living in Ethiopia (only my 2nd yr., but I've also lived in Botswana and Greece). Since they're so many Indians applying to elite unis, do you think my background might set me apart?</p>
<p>My friend, who's from SA and speaks Afrikaans, is the most pale, blue-eyed blonde girl ever. Her last name is unmistakably Dutch. Yet, she considers herself African. Not even African American (she's only lived here for very few years).</p>
<p>She is African. However, it's a pretty dishonest thing to mark as that's obviously not what the question is really asking.</p>