I do apologize if this isn’t the right place but this feels like a safe place to say it because it’s generally more positive here than Reddit. But I kinda feel like people almost use URM…not necessarily as a slur, but more like with the same disgust that Malfoy says ‘POtter.’.

I just read a comment on r/medschooladmissions about how “90% of the applicants who get accepted with low stats are URM. But they won't disclose that.” And just the way it was written makes it sound like us URMs are just weaseling our way into medicine. The same post was made on r/premed basically about how low stat success stories that don’t post their URM status are false hope, which ~surprise surprise~ implies it’s only viable hope/impressive if it’s an ORM.

I feel like I see this a lot too where there will be a low stat acceptance story and the first comment is always asking if they’re a URM (and this is whyyyyy people don’t disclose that) and then it’s somehow deemed less impressive. There’s just this whole thing where it’s almost like being a URM is just deceiving the way through or makes everything easier. Like yeah maybe my GPA would prob be a couple points higher if my parents didn’t have to escape a genocide for me to exist but I shouldn’t be proud of anything I’ve accomplished because I’m a URM so it’s easier.

I’m no stranger to being called a token and I’ve just heard this type of rhetoric for far too long for anyone to take away the pride I have in my own story. But it’s just so….tacky that there are people that genuinely don’t understand that maybe URM’s ‘have it easier’ because the generational path it took them to get to the same place is like…a lot longer.