What is URM?

Applying to College
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<p>See this abbreviation frequently in the post....anyone can tell me, what is URM?</p>

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<p>Under-Represented Minority</p>

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<p>That's how it is used here. Did it originally stand for "Underrepresented in Medicine" ?</p>

<p>The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has a new definition of URM: “Underrepresented in medicine means those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population.”</p>

<p>So now they can define it any way they want, vs the old definition which mentions specific ethnic groups:</p>

<p>In the past, the AAMC used the term “underrepresented minority (URM),” which consisted of Blacks, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans (that is, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians), and mainland Puerto Ricans.</p>

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<p>Thanks guys!</p>