technically thats not the definition of URM....it doesn't matter how much personal hardship or collective cultural/racial hardship you'd be subjected too. URM is simply underpersented for what ever reason in medicine. And NA are definately URMs, but the decision is purely statistics
I personally think the whole URM thing is pretty ******ed. While TheRealMD's statement was a poor answer to the OP's question, it does ring true in the sense if you were in fact never financially or "prejudicially" disadvantaged by your race, why should you get special compensation for it?
Of course one could make the arguement, which is very valid, that prejudice comes with race, but if indeed your parents were professionals, made good income, provided for a good education, how exactly are you at a disadvantage?
As such, I believe URM like consideration should be solely based on social-economic status. If your a poor son of a white dirt farmer in rural West Virgina, without adequate access to health care services, without expectations for professional success, how does that make you're achievements any less significant than someone whose sole "distadvantage" is race? Of course statistically race correlate with economic status, but whats holding you back? the color of your skin or the fact that you can't afford to take SAT prep classes?
As an asian person who has overcome significant financial difficulties, language barriers (which most URMs never had to deal with), and racism, how am I less deserving of consideration? I'm not asking for a handout, just that no one else gets the unfair advantage either.