Define URM

[nayan504]

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[gyngyn]

What exactly makes a school define someone as URM? If my parents did not attend college or not even graduate high school, does that hurt me?

Any URM info would help, I do not consider myself URM but since reading all these forums I question what I already understood.

The AAMC definition of underrepresented in medicine is:
"Underrepresented in medicine means those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population."
Adopted by the AAMC's Executive Council on June 26, 2003, the definition helps medical schools accomplish three important objectives:

• a shift in focus from a fixed aggregation of four racial and ethnic groups to a continually evolving underlying reality. The definition accommodates including and removing underrepresented groups on the basis of changing demographics of society and the profession,
• a shift in focus from a national perspective to a regional or local perspective on underrepresentation, and
• stimulate data collection and reporting on the broad range of racial and ethnic self-descriptions

 

[AdrianVeidt]

black people, latin people, native americans, pacific islanders and eskimos

 

[sector9]

What exactly makes a school define someone as URM? If my parents did not attend college or not even graduate high school, does that hurt me?

Any URM info would help, I do not consider myself URM but since reading all these forums I question what I already understood.

Your parent's education level is not related to URM status