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as long as you're not egyptian, you're fine. Hope i don't get banned for saying that, i hope people get the joke.
Got the answer I needed.
"Disadvantaged" is a self-designation meant to identify applicants of any race who grew up (age 0-18) in economically disadvantaged households and/or who came from communities that had a shortage of primary care providers.
If you don't fit that description, you might not want to self-identify as "disadvantaged". In particular, I'd suggest avoiding any self-revelations of emotional issues from childhood neglect or abuse. It sounds like baggage that the adcom might prefer you not bring with you to medical school.
Is there an income cut-off? My parents were at <$100,000 for most of my childhood.
Trolling/sarcasm?
If not, $100,000 is a lot of money and nowhere near disadvantaged seeing as ~80% of US households earn under $100,000.
Money was always tight, but it's true that all things considered, we survived. Lots of tuna salad sandwiches and spaghetti with meatless sauce, but we survived. Nvmd.
So that was a serious comment? You survived with <$100,000 household income a year?
Please, please tell me you are joking? If so, it is funny. If not....
Is there an income cut-off? My parents were at <$100,000 for most of my childhood.
So that was a serious comment? You survived with <$100,000 household income a year?
Please, please tell me you are joking? If so, it is funny. If not....
That would be Medicaid, public housing, free school lunch, LINK (food stamps), cash payments (welfare).
Kind of. Maybe not.
My parents are educators and my mom didn't work because she was raising four kids. Money was tight, but we survived. Only after I left for college did my dad start to crawl up the ranks of academe.
Money was always tight, but it's true that all things considered, we survived. Lots of tuna salad sandwiches and spaghetti with meatless sauce, but we survived. Nvmd.
The 2012 poverty guidelines define poverty for a family of 6 (in 2012 dollars) as $30,970. http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/12fedreg.shtml
If your father is an academic and your mother is well educated, you might want to be very careful about self-identifying as disadvantaged. You don't want the adcom to think All applicants have the opportunity to list annual family income and answer some questions about family size and socioeconomic status so that information can be taken into consideration.
I was also having issues with this. I'm a URM and my family struggled for money while they were revalidating their careers in this country up until I was about 14. We almost lost everything we had because we didnt have much money. I'm 24 now, though. We are doing pretty well now ( their combined income is about 80,000$ a year) but my parents are in their 60's and retiring soon, so I've had to work throughout undergrad to help pay for some of my things so they can save money for retirement since they came to this country when they were in their 40's. So I was disadvantage for half of my life in the U.S, but not so much anymore (luckily). So I'm not sure how to approach this. Can anybody offer so input, please?
Why do people erase the question after it is answered? Thats stupid. If I have a similar question I will not know that it has been answered because the OP changed the question to "I got the answer"Got the answer I needed.
"Disadvantaged" is a self-designation meant to identify applicants of any race who grew up (age 0-18) in economically disadvantaged households and/or who came from communities that had a shortage of primary care providers.
If you don't fit that description, you might not want to self-identify as "disadvantaged". In particular, I'd suggest avoiding any self-revelations of emotional issues from childhood neglect or abuse. It sounds like baggage that the adcom might prefer you not bring with you to medical school.
What if an applicant grew up in a rural area that was definitely regarded as medically underserved, but was raised in an upper-middle class family (and marked the appropriate family income level on the application.) Now Obviously this applicant wouldn't select the yes option for disadvantaged on the app, but is it still okay to select the yes option for medically underserved community?The applicant wouldn't be answering yes to try to gain any sort of advantage, but just wants to answer the question honestly. Would the applicant be likely to face scrutiny in an interview for checking that box?
I don't know if that box is an option this year for people who don't self-identify as disadvantaged.
AAMC has a list of counties that are underserved and automatically will put a (U) next to the name of your county if it is underserved (by the numbers) and (R) if your county is rural (again, I'm sure that there is an objective measure of rural-ness and list of counties that qualify). You'd be surprised of the areas that qualify an underserved including Manhattan (New York County) with its 4 medical schools. (Because who practices primary care in Manhattan? almost no one.)
You should not concern yourself with the affairs of other people.
Go ahead and click any button you please.... it might help, it can't hurt (given that you won't self-identify as disadvantaged despite being raised in a higher SES family).
I posted earlier this week about a study showing that being interested in FP and coming from a rural area to be a good predictor of serving as a FP in a rural area after graduation. Schools that have a mission to train FP for underserved areas may take notice.
It's fraud, and that's the bottom line. People applying for entrance into schools that will give them a foundation in the training require to become a physicians should be more honest than the guy or gal next to them. Someone falsifying their race on the application for admission seems to me to be a big red flag that this person might do other unethical things during and after medical schooling is complete.
Thanks. You said "given that you won't self-identify as disadvantaged despite being raised in a higher SES family." I'm a bit confused -- I can't self-identify as disadvantaged, right? My family was almost certainly in the top 2% of income earners for the county. I will check that box I think since there appears to be no problem with doing so.
I am actually interested in child psychiatry but I suppose psychiatry is considered primary care in some contexts. We didn't have any child psychiatrists nearby us growing up -- we had two psychiatrists, and one of them only worked 20 hours per week. The county I'm talking about is Lewis County, NY (up there near the Canadian border, so I'm guessing you might not be familiar with it), population 27,000, making it the fourth least populous county in the state. It is also the second poorest county in the state, barely ahead of the Bronx (although with strikingly different demographics). It has a high rate of uninsured compared to the more populous Upstate NY counties. I don't know if any of the SUNYs or Upstate NY private schools specialize in training FPs and other primary care docs, but I know that a couple of the schools offer a rural FP track -- not what I'm interested in, however.