I will just give you a scenario and you can take what you want from it. I work with a URM who recieved 3 interviews (out of the 4 schools she applied to). Here are her stats: 3.0 GPA, 22 on the MCAT 6 months experience working in a clinic.
Now, i am not a URM and here are my stats. My GPA from graduate school is a 3.78. I have 7 years of volunteer work with autistic kids, 1 years experience working in a hospital, 1 year working in a clinic, 4 years working in clinical research, and now i am doing basic research in hematologic malignancies. Bombed the MCAT but recieved exactly the same score as my co-worker. I applied to 16 schools and was flat out rejected from all of them!
So, does this answer your question about "if URMs have an advantage"? Sorry if this sounds like i am bitter (i am a little) but i wouldn't be if she wasn't so irritating reluctant about her opportunites. She said ," i only went to 2 of the 3 interviews because one of them was a real long drive, like 3 hours away" Now, give me a BREAK. Most of us would kill for an opportunity like that! 😡