Quick question. Am I correct in saying that med school applications have no URM box to check off? Is it that they have a section to mark whether you think you were disadvantaged? So both John Smith and José Rodriguez can mark that they are disadvantaged because John grew up in a working poor single parent family, without access to proper healthcare, ect while José had non-english speaking immigrant parents who both only received a 3rd and 5th grade education, and the family only had a roof over his head thanks to government aid, ect?
Does ethnicity/race play a part in your paperwork or is it your class (poor, working poor, lower working, upper working, lower middle, upper middle, upper)?
edit- is this the type of thing they look at?
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=681944