URM-Non/URM any middle ground?

[Ged42]

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I have a question about being URM in medical school admissions. (I don't think I count myself.) Is there any middle ground between becoming a majority or minority, and does URM encompass races beyond black and latino?

The reason I ask is because I'm mixed race (Morocco, Yemen, and Russia) and I know that race plays an important part of medical admissions, and I didn't want to be simply lumped with Caucasians because I feel that racial quotas would do me more harm than good. Is there any way around this? I'm very obviously not white, but I feel frustrated that there's never any category I can find other than "caucasian."

 

[riceman04]

I have a question about being URM in medical school admissions. (I don't think I count myself.) Is there any middle ground between becoming a majority or minority, and does URM encompass races beyond black and latino?

The reason I ask is because I'm mixed race (Morocco, Yemen, and Russia) and I know that race plays an important part of medical admissions, and I didn't want to be simply lumped with Caucasians because I feel that racial quotas would do me more harm than good. Is there any way around this? I'm very obviously not white, but I feel frustrated that there's never any category I can find other than "caucasian."

no way around it...now blaze your trail full steam ahead


can't you check other?

 

[Van Chowder]

Sorry bro! Get to study'n! 😉

 

[LizzyM]

If you are a native speaker of a language other than English, and if you apply to a school in an area where there is a sizable community of non-English speaking people who speak your native tongue THEN you might make a point in your secondary application or in the interview that you are interested in serving the people of that community and that you think that you can be an asset to the medical facilities where you are assigned as a medical student. (if you are fluent in several languages and have had extensive experience communicating with native speakers of those languages, this general rule applies for all the languages you speak.) You might also have an interest in serving that community as a physician, and if so, you should mention that, too.

Obviously, this means doing some work to find the specific geographic areas where immigrants who speak that language cluster and focusing your efforts on medical schools in those areas.

 

[tiedyeddog]

I have a question about being URM in medical school admissions. (I don't think I count myself.) Is there any middle ground between becoming a majority or minority, and does URM encompass races beyond black and latino?

The reason I ask is because I'm mixed race (Morocco, Yemen, and Russia) and I know that race plays an important part of medical admissions, and I didn't want to be simply lumped with Caucasians because I feel that racial quotas would do me more harm than good. Is there any way around this? I'm very obviously not white, but I feel frustrated that there's never any category I can find other than "caucasian."

I think you're considered white.

 

[Ged42]

Thanks for the replies. I didn't expect to be considered URM or anything like that, I was just curious. Lizzy's reply brings up an interesting question.

Do racial quotas exist more because of:
1. The likelihood that those people from under served communities will return to serve their communities? OR
2. Creating diversity on campus (and in the career)?

 

[LizzyM]

Thanks for the replies. I didn't expect to be considered URM or anything like that, I was just curious. Lizzy's reply brings up an interesting question.

Do racial quotas exist more because of:
1. The likelihood that those people from under served communities will return to serve their communities? OR
2. Creating diversity on campus (and in the career)?

There are no "quotas". A school attempts to recruit a diverse student body to create diversity on campus. It also recognizes and values the likelihood that students tend to serve communities similar to those in which they were raised.

 

[longhorn09]

The middle ground is called Caucasian.