What constitutes an Under Represented Minority (URM)?

BKSquared
Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:47:56 +0000

To the extent that a university/college wants to give special consideration (added bump) to a particular minority group, that group would be a URM for the purposes you are talking about. This would be an institutional and not an individual AO call.

There could be schools that want to increase the number of Jewish matriculates like schools that want to increase Asian Americans, who are otherwise ORM’s for other schools, but I think that would be rare.