<p>I am half south american and half filipino. Do I count as a URM?</p>
<p>What difference would the answer make?</p>
<p>I think it’s more represenative of your skin color than your ethnicity… </p>
<p>like if you’re from South Africa, but you’re white, then you’re white… or if you were from Europe, and were white, that’s… what you are</p>
<p>I know what you mean by skin color, but I want to mention something that I read about Barack Obama on a progressive political board. </p>
<p>Someone was questioning whether Obama was African American or bi-racial. The answer from the progressive was that, if he self-identifies as African American, that is good enough for them. </p>
<p>I understand that the self-identifying method is open to some abuse for political or admissions/scholarship reasons, but is seems the alternative, in a not always honest world, is some kind of Race Classification Board to provide an objective ruling.</p>
<p>I believe, for the sake of that pesky box on applications, that you should select other and put Country-From-South-America and Filipino.</p>
<p>Why would you ask this question when you are already a NHRP scholar?</p>
<p>I’m biracial too and i checked the other box as abiste states so I could say my full background making me seem more diverse I guess. In some schools I think it would count as an URM just because they list biracial/multiracial as a seperate race. I think Dartmouth states only 0.6% of their students are multiracial.</p>
<p>Barack Obama is not African-American because he did not descend from Black slaves in either North, South or Central America on his paternal side. He is of mixed African and Caucasian descent, even if he does choose to associate with African-Americans. </p>
<p>I’m biracial (African-American on my maternal side, Caucasian [Israeli] on my father’s side), and I think its wrong to only recognize yourself as one race when that is not the case. However, I would not get upset if another bi/multiracial person did choose to associate only with one. </p>
<p>When I applied to Princeton, I chose either “bi/multiracial” or “other”, I can’t recall which exactly was on the application. </p>
<p>If they give you the opportunity to specify, choose more specific ethnic/non-racial options, then I would be as specific as possible. I would say as a whole its good to be bi/multiracial in admissions.</p>
<p>“Barack Obama is not African-American because he did not descend from Black slaves in either North, South or Central America on his paternal side. He is of mixed African and Caucasian descent, even if he does choose to associate with African-Americans.”</p>
<p>Without making any judgment as to which is the “better” or “more correct” definition, I would like to point out that many people do include more recent African immigrants in their definition of African-American (after all, if they’re not African-American, then what box can they check?).</p>
<p>Filipino and South American (so long as you are not from Brazil) are both considered Hispanic (along with people from Spain). The Philippines were once a Spanish colony, then annexed by the US after the Spanish American War (just like Puerto Rico and Guam) and then became a free nation after WWII. You are 100% Hispanic for all intensive purposes UNLESS you are of white/black decent and not partially native.</p>
<p>I don’t think Filipino is considered Hispanic, their culture is quite different. However, at least in Calif, Filipino is consider URM. So he would be considered multi-racial descendant of two different URM.</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_cultural_legacy_in_the_Philippines[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_cultural_legacy_in_the_Philippines</a></p>
<p>according to the U.S. Census bureau filipino, would be categorized as asian</p>
<p>Asian. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. It includes “Asian Indian,” “Chinese,” “Filipino,” “Korean,” “Japanese,” “Vietnamese,” and “Other Asian.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_68176.htm[/url]”>http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_68176.htm</a></p>
<p>Guess us census beats wikipedia. Also means that one of my friends lied to a ton of colleges, not that it matters at this point.</p>
<p>I found this thread through search and it seems no one here on CC really knows the answer… is bi-racial or multi-racial still considered URM? Are you considered a URM by universities if you are half black and half white, or half latino and half asian?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Barack is African American. He was born in America (or at least has American citizenship) and I think if you are 1/8 black you are considered African. African+American=African American.</p>
<p>Play the game, you’re Hispanic , put it down. The people that tell you not to are just the ones that wish they could.</p>
<p>But what if you can write an interesting essay about your multi-racial identity… then again, I’d like to know whether stating “the other half” would jeopardize the URM factor.</p>