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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Slightly OT, but this URM designation has always puzzled me.  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]

Yeah. My oldest (post-college) has a friend who is from Venezuela and went to private school there k-12. Friend came to U.S. for college and got URM internships. Kid is as white as an be.[/quote]

I am not talking about the kid being born in another country. I'm talking about the parent of a kid born in another country and the parent immigrated to the US and built a life here.  Does this kid have a URM advantage even though they lived in the US and had a comfortable life? [b]So, again, is it URM + low income or URM?[/b]

I guess another question is how much does the parent's narrative/background hold weight with regard to the kid's personal narrative? Certainly someone who moved to this country (whether for political reasons or not) did face some obstacles by leaving family, friends, home country to make a better life, though very obviously not on that same scale. And the kid of that person may as well have been affected in some way by this transition - for example, not knowing their family in the home country, the parent perhaps having different values, habits, customs that made the kid a bit of an outsider. [/quote]

I think you are conflating two things.

Scholarships and internships for URMs are not just meant to give a "leg up" to kids who are disadvantaged. They are also meant to bring new perspectives to a program or an employer. So, a middle class kid who grew up in a Mexican-American community, speaking Spanish, and having those specific cultural experiences is actually going to bring something different to the classroom/job and there's value in that perspective.

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