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In the transfer game, does being a URM (i.e. AA, MA, NA) give you a significant boost like it does when you apply the first time as an 0L?

According to Arrow's transfer guide (or else I read this somewhere else on TLS) being a URM won't give you a very large boost for transfer apps. Arrow's reasoning is that schools accept very few transfers, so accepting more URMs won't help their bottom line much. Think if <50% accepted are URM, and the transfer population is an even smaller portion of the student body population, then accepting a URM transfer isn't going to boost diversity stats much. Anyway, Arrow does a much better job at explaining his/her reasoning, so go check the Transfers thread. Bottom line is, being URM won't hurt.

im an URM and i don't think i got any benefit this past transfer cycle

I've seen individuals who aren't specifically URM but are not Caucasian get accepted despite not having "transfer worthy" grades. These anecdotes aren't students breaking into the t-14 but entail a relatively big upward jumps in the rankings.