Being a URM and chances at college admissions

Applying to College
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<p>Hey guys, I have read online that being a URM, in my case, INDONESIAN, can significantly improve my college admissions even though i don’t have the best profile. Is that true?</p>

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<p>Indonesian is not likely to be URM (though possible at some colleges), and UCs don’t consider race or ethnicity anyway.</p>

<p>(Even people who are URMs should not overestimate any benefit that being a URM gives, since many colleges have dropped such preferences or reduced them significantly.)</p>

<p>You may want to consider the context of your relatively low standardized test scores compared to your high GPA. Do you know if other students with similarly high grades in your high school tend to get similar standardized test scores?</p>

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<li>If not (i.e. other students getting A grades in high school courses score 700+ on SAT subject tests and (for AP courses) 5 on AP tests), then you may want to consider test preparation and retrying the SAT reasoning and/or ACT.</li>
<li>If so, then you may be at a high school with considerable grade inflation and/or courses that are relatively poor in covering what good college prep high school courses are expected to cover (as measured by SAT reasoning and subject, ACT, and AP tests). If this is the case, then be aware that college could be considerably more difficult than high school, and you may have to work harder in college to “catch up” from your weaker high school preparation than many other students in college.</li>
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<p>Remember, URM =/= minority. URM stands for UnderRepresented Minority in college relative to the abundance of the group in the general population.</p>