It REALLY bothers me how many future lawyers on this board use "retard" derogatorily. A lot. To the point where I can't take it anymore and had to get that off my chest. Okay. Better.>:-) wrote:Yeah retards piss me off. He quoted her saying what he tried to explain to her.....it screams inbred idiot.
Could I be considered URM??? Forum
- Holly Golightly
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Wow, just . . . wow. I have no comment; the puerile insensibility of your statement speaks for itself.>:-) wrote:Yeah retards piss me off.
- mpasi
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>:-) wrote:How could this level of stupidity not piss off anyone who read it? This idiot should be castrated to protect the human genome.newyorker88 wrote:wtf? you do know there's no such race as hispanic right.mpasi wrote:Why does ethnicity/nationality matter? The race of the applicant should be about it, right? Hispanic is Hispanic, no matter what ethnic group you're in.
Or maybe you're just getting pissed off over a poor choice of words? You're not helping your cause by freaking out over it. I said Hispanic because most of the applications I come across say "Hispanic". Some say Latino. I'm not from that group, and it doesn't come up among my friends who are, so how am I going to know? A lot of people refer to themselves as Hispanic. It's not like I sat here and made derogatory comments. :/ If I'm misusing a term, then just say so. No need to have a coronary over it.
>:-) wrote:No shit sherlock, thats what she was trying to say. Learn to read.
No, dumbass, it's not. I was trying to say that they should all get the same consideration, instead of "ranking" them as vanwinkle explained. I don't think that's fair.
- lostjake
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I don't know how they can even pretend to be in compliance with this. I know at some schools they will take the information disclosure sheet off the app and give it a number, and then give it to who the admissions office. But then you get to the PS and its about being a URM and its pretty obvious they can still do AA. Silly at best.
You Gotta Have Faith wrote:1) I'm curious to know which Hispanic-related nationalities get no boost at all in your opinion. I was under the impression that all of them got *some* degree of boost.vanwinkle wrote:Bolded is incorrect. For Hispanics, the categories that get the biggest benefit are Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans. Every other nationality gets a smaller benefit, or none at all, from what I've been able to tell.You Gotta Have Faith wrote:The only 3 categories that benefit from URM status are (1) Blacks/African-Americans, (2) Hispanics (some more than others... Cubans get the least benefit), and (3) Native-Americans (you need a tribal identification).
However, the overall gist of it (URM = Black, MX or PR Hispanic, or Native American, and that's it) is correct.
2) While I know that Puerto Ricans and Mexicans are the main "beneficiaries" so to speak... I was under the impression that along the continuum, Cubans got the least help. That may be wrong... I dunno, nor do I really care too much, haha.
3) In any case, I'm more under the impression that this fluctuates somewhat from school to school. As one poster pointed out, at Berkeley, there's a different set of priorities. But working in the other direction, I'm pretty sure that some schools are more lacking in one type of URM than another. Thus, their needs/preferences vary, despite the fact that 2 or 3 types of URM would be considered *roughly* equal.
- You Gotta Have Faith
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- vanwinkle
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http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 1#p2904508You Gotta Have Faith wrote:Where is >:-)
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