I’m Iranian does that mean i’m an underepresented minority?
<p>nope............................</p>
<p>is every hispanic considered an urm?</p>
<p>nope.... mainly Puerto rico, mexico</p>
<p>Basically URM breakdown is like this: not URM: White, Chinese, Japanese, Indian (from India), Jewish</p>
<p>URM: Black, Native American, Arabic, Hispanic, any Asian group not listed above (ie Korean, Vietnamese etc)</p>
<p>So Iranian does count?</p>
<p>What? Really? I thought that all Asians weren't considered URMs because they're not...underrepresented. (I'm Vietnamese.)</p>
<p>You're right, joev wrong.</p>
<p>no actually, many colleges are making their checklists more specific because they know that being vietnamese and being japanese are two very different things. there usually isnt just the plain old 'asian' category, and so in many cases some asian sub groups are urms.</p>
<p>I really thought that for undergrad, all Hispanics were considered URMs. I thought they didn't start differentiating until grad school...</p>
<p>I could be wrong though!</p>
<p>They definitely don't differentiate for Hispanics. </p>
<p>Among Asians, Chinese/Koreans/Indians are disporportionally way over-represented in most of the top colleges whereas Indonesians/Filippinos, while may not be over-represented, probably not under-represented (with respect to US population) either.</p>