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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Slightly OT, but [b]this URM designation has always puzzled me[/b].  Does the designation encompass both URM and low income? Or is URM sufficient?

For example, if a kid has a parent born in a Latin American country, who immigrated to the U.S. after graduating from a US college, didn't have refugee status or need political asylum, but instead came for  education and job prospects, currently lives a solid middle class lifestyle, has STEM job and decent salary, an American spouse - does their kid have URM advantage simply by checking the box, even though their life on the whole has been more than comfortable? Are they allowed to check the box if one parent is American ?[/quote]

It's not a real designation, you know that right? It's shorthand on DCUM for kids who may be more likely to get into a school because they come from a racial or ethnic group that is underrepresented at that school.  If you want to know if a given ethnic group is underrepresented, you will have to look at the statistics for that school.  There is no master of URM decreeing who is in and who is out

My guess is that a Uyghur person who is a refugee and wrote about that experience would get a boost at most schools, but I don't know for sure.[/quote]

Yes, I can absolutely see why a refugee would be given special consideration in college admission. Or a low income student, or URM.

As to the bolded, no, I really don't know how the common app works. I thought you checked a box saying you were Asian, Hispanic, white, etc. - and was wondering if  that identity alone gives a student what DCUM thinks of as a URM advantage? Or if that URM advantage is perhaps only applied if the applicant is also low income.

And also wondering if it applies to the student/applicant if one of their parents is from an underrepresented group/country while the other parent is American?

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