<p>Not true.</p>
<p>Asians are still URMs, but a bunch of them still get rejected. I think that if you’re Hispanic or African American, then the URM status helps out more. Asians have a higher bar set.
Here’s an example - A class of 2008 kid at my school - 2400 SAT Score, 4.0 GPA, Varsity Golf Captain and Varsity Soccer, Asian, and a damn good writer.
He only applied to one safety, which was our State’s university, and the rest were HPY, Stanford, Cornell, etc.
He ended up getting into NONE of them, even our state’s university, so now he’s going to go to community college.</p>
<p>The point here is that either Asian URM status isn’t that great, or that colleges don’t always care about perfect scorers, which undercuts the URM status.</p>
<p>And do realize that with URM status, you at least need to have some sort of financial problem. If you’re a URM and your parents make like 100k+ a year, they’ll look at with more scrutiny because they know that you probably had more opportunities than a URM whose parents only earn like 40k a year.</p>