Dartmouth College Class of 2028: White, Asian, Black and Native American Numbers FELL. Hispanic or Latinx ROSE

[Anonymous]

Students who chose not to disclose their race doubled from 3.3% to 6.6% (White Students, obvi).

All percentage changes aren't that significant, in my opinion.


https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/09/class-2028#:~:text=Of%20the%201%2C184%20students%20in,all%2Dtime%20high%20for%20Dartmouth.

[Anonymous]

When that happens, IMO, it means they leaned heavily on the National Merit Hispanic Recognition Program designation in apps.

Which seems .. lazy?

[Anonymous]

I bailed at Latinx.

[Anonymous]

No one used Latinx, especially Latinos.

Stop trying to make fetch happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When that happens, IMO, it means they leaned heavily on the National Merit Hispanic Recognition Program designation in apps.

Which seems .. lazy?

Yes but it works

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When that happens, IMO, it means they leaned heavily on the National Merit Hispanic Recognition Program designation in apps.

Which seems .. lazy?

Yes but it works

Works how? Plenty of kids claim to be Hispanic who are three generations away from speaking anything but English. It’s not making Dartmouth more diverse on anything but paper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When that happens, IMO, it means they leaned heavily on the National Merit Hispanic Recognition Program designation in apps.

Which seems .. lazy?

Yes but it works

NP. +1 been saying this. The recognition program awards are flying under the radar in importance. For URMs, make sure you take the PSAT, prepped if possible (as in, prep for taking an SAT around the same time).

There's no way to know if the award was relevant for Dartmouth specifically, but with their URM numbers being up, and not being allowed to track those numbers during the admission season, perhaps they were very liberally accepting apps that included URM mentions (including but not limited to the national recognition program awards).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Students who chose not to disclose their race doubled from 3.3% to 6.6% (White Students, obvi).

I think your assumption is incorrect and it’s actually quite likely that many Asian students are choosing not to disclose race.

[Anonymous]

The class is so small you are talking about very small shifts in the number of kids.

Also not only do you not know the race of the students who didn't disclose (could be white or could be AAPI kids who fear discrimination or multi-racial students who just get tired of having to identify -- people have all kinds of perspectives on this) but also nearly 15% of the class are international students whose race is not included in the demographic breakdown. So it's possible the actual racial diversity of the class is identical to last year or different in a way that you wouldn't expect because the shifts are so small and the class is so small and there are actually quite a few students whose race is not even represented in these numbers.

It looks like a pretty diverse class. I truly don't get why people get so worked up about this unless you personally were rejected by Dartmouth and looking for a reason why that decision was wrong or unfair or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When that happens, IMO, it means they leaned heavily on the National Merit Hispanic Recognition Program designation in apps.

Which seems .. lazy?

Yes but it works

Works how? Plenty of kids claim to be Hispanic who are three generations away from speaking anything but English. It’s not making Dartmouth more diverse on anything but paper.

don’t you have a job? You post on all of these topics continuously. Day after day. We get that you are pissed because your Asian kids with perfect scores are somehow disadvantaged in your mind. It’s getting old. No one cares. Get a life.

Stop hijacking everything with your agenda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When that happens, IMO, it means they leaned heavily on the National Merit Hispanic Recognition Program designation in apps.

Which seems .. lazy?

Yes but it works

Works how? Plenty of kids claim to be Hispanic who are three generations away from speaking anything but English. It’s not making Dartmouth more diverse on anything but paper.

Exactly.

It even says on the link

Note: Values do not total 100% as some students report more than one race or ethnicity. Underrepresented Backgrounds include Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, and Native or Indigenous students.

So you have Latinas who look like Alexis Bledel, Anya Taylor-Joy and Germans from Argentina.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When that happens, IMO, it means they leaned heavily on the National Merit Hispanic Recognition Program designation in apps.

Which seems .. lazy?

Yes but it works

Works how? Plenty of kids claim to be Hispanic who are three generations away from speaking anything but English. It’s not making Dartmouth more diverse on anything but paper.

don’t you have a job? You post on all of these topics continuously. Day after day. We get that you are pissed because your Asian kids with perfect scores are somehow disadvantaged in your mind. It’s getting old. No one cares. Get a life.

Stop hijacking everything with your agenda.

step off.

I only comment on Dartmouth where my two kids are and where I think the diversity measures are substandard.

being the comment police on a message board is not a good look, esp when you're so off base.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The class is so small you are talking about very small shifts in the number of kids.

Also not only do you not know the race of the students who didn't disclose (could be white or could be AAPI kids who fear discrimination or multi-racial students who just get tired of having to identify -- people have all kinds of perspectives on this) but also nearly 15% of the class are international students whose race is not included in the demographic breakdown. So it's possible the actual racial diversity of the class is identical to last year or different in a way that you wouldn't expect because the shifts are so small and the class is so small and there are actually quite a few students whose race is not even represented in these numbers.

It looks like a pretty diverse class. I truly don't get why people get so worked up about this unless you personally were rejected by Dartmouth and looking for a reason why that decision was wrong or unfair or whatever.

Most of the international students are White making the incoming class around 60% White just like year.

On paper the 2023 figure was 52.3 but actually the class was 60% White.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


Students who chose not to disclose their race doubled from 3.3% to 6.6% (White Students, obvi).

All percentage changes aren't that significant, in my opinion.


https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/09/class-2028#:~:text=Of%20the%201%2C184%20students%20in,all%2Dtime%20high%20for%20Dartmouth.

The numbers look good to me.

Race is not supposed to matter post SCOTUS ruling, right?

[Anonymous]

Personally the numbers do surprise me, I thought Dartmouth was around70% Caucasian.