What's a 'minority' student?

Prep School Admissions
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<p>There are many aspects to being a minority (sexual orientation, financial status, ethnicity etc.) but which on are people referring to when saying “Yeah he got mid-50’s SSAT, but he was a minority student.”</p>

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<p>Race, Location(Residential I believe), Gender and Ethnic Group(Maybe you grew up on an indiana conservation) are all in that label of minority.</p>

<p>Most people use minority as a racial description.</p>

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<p>Boarding school applicants who are underrepresented - often abbreviated as URM on this forum - can have an edge admissions wise as the schools try to build a more diverse community. Typically, this will be black/african american, hispanic/latino and native american students.</p>

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<p>in my opinion, muslims too. exeter has about 9 muslim students out of their thousand (source: newspaper article). 2 or 3 of them are most likely girls.</p>

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<p>Post #2: Indiana conservation?</p>

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<p>That is a minority… I was just trying to have an off the wall example.</p>

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<p>Conservative politics, absolutely, at least at D.C.-area day schools that lean liberal. I don’t know about prep schools.</p>

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<p>Yep good old Indiana, aka The Lone Star State.
Its where Prince Charles spent his honeymoon.</p>

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<p>F-I-F</p>

<p>That’s bad…very very bad… :)</p>