Is being an Asian a URM?

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Just for others reading, there is no one simple answer to first gen definition even though posters will say otherwise. Here is how Swarthmore defines it:

The title first-generation college student means different things to different people. To promote a more inclusive definition of what it means to be “first-generation,” we define first-generation broadly to include:

Students whose parents/guardians did not graduate from a four year institution;
Students with parents/guardians with some collegiate experience; and
Students with parents/guardians who graduated from college and universities outside the United States who have limited experience and knowledge of the college experience in the United States.

So your parents can in fact have college degrees and you might qualify as first gen at some schools and/or for some programs.