Don't Stress About Scores

Jersey13
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:34:36 +0000

^^totally agree. I get what you are saying, and I see the point. I guess what I’m trying to say is just that the application just has so many different aspects to it, I just don’t get why nationality plays such a big role in some people’s mind

Yes, some people do exaggerate the impact of URM status, but it would be equally ignorant to say that it doesn’t play a significant role.

And it’s obvious with the previous post that URM status doesn’t always push towards acceptance. What it as that led to my acceptance, I don’t know, but I feel that my application was strong as a whole, that being an URM might’ve helped, but that it was everything else that got me in, not that.

Quite the opposite, URM status does push toward an acceptance, UT84321 and I are merely saying that there are many aspects to an application and thus URM status doesn’t guarantee anything. As for your last statement, you still seem to misunderstand. It is everything, including your URM status, that got you in. It was not just being a URM, but it was also not everything except being a URM.