Importance of URM status?

entomom
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:33:46 +0000

This question has been asked many times, use the Search function and you should find several helpful threads.

Yes, URM status helps at the top colleges if the student is a competitive applicant. How much depends on the school, the student’s background and many other factors which most of us don’t know and can’t predict.

The best thing you can do is collect data: go back into the results threads from past years for the schools you are interested in and look at the students that were URM to get some idea of their qualifications and personal situation.