URM and Diversity Statements

[PrincetonLaw]

Two questions: a) do you lose the URM boost if you don't write a diversity statement?

b) I'm half-white, half-mexican; is it unwise to take the "i've been treated as an outsider by both ethnic groups and yet I have a great deal of insight into both identities because of my ethnic blend" or go with the traditional "as a mexican american i have experienced/witnessed/suffered etc..."?

[lawrencecis]

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