<p>As I look at my relatively low SAT scores (M:680 CR: 590 W:620), I was wondering how much of a help would it be to come from a Spanish speaking country? What kind of SAT scores should I aim for? Maybe 700 + Math and 650+ in reading/writing?</p>
<p>How much schooling have you had here? If you came from DR two years ago without speaking English your test results are very good. Otherwise you would be competing with a lot of other URMs that have much better scores. Your competition is really the other students that have the same “hook” you do.</p>
<p>What is URM? The education I’m receiving is the country’s most elite school and, as far as I am concerned, I am probably one out of like two or three in the country to apply…and probably like out of 15 in the Caribbean. I also noticed that Princeton has no student from the Dominican Republic and not very many from the Caribbean…Do all these serve to my advantage?</p>
<p>URM=under represented minority</p>
<p>If you are doing high school in the Dominican Republic then you would be an International Student not an URM.</p>
<p>Search the International Student forums.</p>
<p>Your competition then becomes the other International Students and you may have a hook from being the only one from the Dominican Republic.</p>
<p>Here’s the thing, I am an American citizen raised outside the U.S… so technically I would be a URM, but for the application processing I would be International…right?</p>
<p>No, being international will actually hurt your chances.</p>
<p>You are an American citizen so you are not an international applicant. However, you are Asian which is the worst possible race to be in college admissions.</p>
<p>With those SAT 1 scores, your chances are very low for Princeton.</p>
<p>Gaffe: Unless you know KQI personally, you goofed. As far as I know, the Dominican Republic is in the Caribbean.</p>
<p>KQI: You can be US citizen and still be URM. You could have been born in the US and moved to DR when you were one. However, if your parents are white/Anglo from Boston and you were brought up in the DR, you might me interesting to Princeton, but I don’t think you’ll qualify as URM. For example, to be considered Hispanic one of your grandparents has to be Hispanic.</p>
<p>I am actually both Asian and Dominican (biracial). I was born in Puerto Rico and moved to the DR when I was 3. All in all, what am I considered? I guess a better question would be, what are US citizen outside the US considered? I know for financial aid I would be American, but for Princeton it doesn’t make a difference for financial aid purposes.</p>
<p>Would have been easier with this information from the beginning. Technically you are Hispanic (URM), if you want to fill that bubble, but understand that that’s just one of the many bubbles you’ll have to fill in when you do your application and one of the many things the school will consider. In the meantime try to get your scores up, write some very good essays and get some very good recommendations.</p>
<p>If you were born in US territory, you are automatically an US citizen. You can be anywhere in the world, but you still count as a non-international applicant. You said you are an US citizen.</p>
<p>You mentioned in a past thread that you were an “Asian-American”.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/265986-what-my-chances-upenn.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/265986-what-my-chances-upenn.html</a></p>
<p>If you are biracial (let’s say: Asian father and Puerto Rican mother) as you revealed in your most recent post (perhaps you made a mistake in your older threads), you are an URM due to your Puerto Rican mother not your Asian father.</p>
<p>If you’re thinking that being born in Puerto Rico and now living in the Dominican Republic means you’re an URM, you are wrong. Your ethnicity, not where you are born, determines if you are an URM or not. Unless one or both of you parents are Hispanic, you are not an URM.</p>
<p>Actually, Im asian-dominican-american born in puerto rico… long story :P… But yeah I guess I am a URM, US citizen living outside the US. According to one of the admissions officer, because my secondary and primary education has been outside the US, they consider that for my SATs and they recommended me to take the TOEFL which I scored slightly higher than their average of 630 (637). I am confident my recommendation and essays are very good… I guess it all depends on luck now.</p>
<p>OMG what a coincidence! I am also asian/dominican. Woah, I never knew another being like me existed. Nice to know you! but my mom is the asian one, and my dad is the dominican. :] good luck.</p>