<p>Is being a Korean-American an URM?</p>
<p>^ No. URM status applies (most commonly in college admission) to African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans.</p>
<p>if you applied to a university in mexico or chile you'd be considered a URM</p>
<p>At Harvard, you'd be a M but hardly UR.</p>
<p>Anything Asian is an ORM - over recruited minority</p>
<p>I chachaed the stats- something like 7% hispanic, 7% black, 1% native american, 24% asian</p>
<p>Not sure how reliable that is. I got an 8% Hispanic stat from the Director of Mult. Recruitment. But you basically get the idea.</p>
<p>Harvard's officially reported statistics: </p>
<p>College</a> Search - Harvard College - At a Glance </p>
<p>The implication is that Asian students are NOT "underrepresented" at Harvard. I've actually never seen a forthright definition of "underrepresented" from the keyboard of a college admission officer. I don't know whether Harvard even uses the term internally. But the basic idea of "underrepresented" is that people of various ethnic groups exist in various percentages in some reference population (the total national population? the total population of high school graduates? the total population of applicants to selective colleges?) and some ethnic groups show up in a lower percentage among the actually enrolled students at certain colleges. Students categorized as Asian reliably show up in relatively high percentages among enrolled students at most highly desired colleges, so generally Asian students are not considered "underrepresented." </p>
<p>I have never seen detailed figures comparing the applicant pool of any particular Ivy League college to its eventual admitted class, nor to its actual enrolled class, on the basis of ethnic categorization. So I hazard no opinion about how this issue is viewed in any particular admission office. </p>
<p>See </p>
<p>Harvard</a> Summer Institute on College Admissions, June 21-26, 2009, Suggested Reading </p>
<p>for the reading list of the 2009 Harvard Summer Institute on College Admissions. Or see </p>
<p>for the current one-stop-shopping FAQ thread on CC about ethnic categories in the admission process.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help in answering that question!=D so i guess no benefits for me...</p>