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Duke University - Black First Year Student Population Decreases 50%
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Anonymous
| Not commenting on substance but this is class of 2029 not kids being admitted this cycle (class of 2030) |
Anonymous
| The % of did not report is most certainly Asian not Black. |
Anonymous
| Not sure about that. |
Anonymous
| It may be over for Black Americans in elite schools, prob looking at 75% Africans and Caribbean and 25% Black American |
Anonymous
I think it's always been this way. Most students have been first or second generation African or Carribean. |
Anonymous
At some point, they’ll opt out for hbcus. When numbers drop this low, there’s a certain power dynamic over black students that drives them away. |
Anonymous
from my understanding, the Ivy League was 60% B.A. / 40% B.I., but since Black as a whole looking like the trend is to be cut in half, or even less in some cases, most likely these people will go to flagship state schools or HBCU |
Anonymous
I've always taken the stance that reparations should go to HBCU, take the top 25 HBCU and give 1 billion each |
Anonymous
this is the camp im in. Went to a top lac before diversity was their wheelhouse and wow…it was socially miserable, particularly in my stem major where certain kinds of students felt they were inherently better than me, since there were so few black people. I was incredibly grateful for the faculty and education I received, but I couldn’t stand the constant isolation and the way other students tried to further minimize me. |
Anonymous
| Conversely, there are increasing numbers of black families with parents that are now successful in numbers never seen. So these families have raised kids in private schools, with SAT prep, and have followed the privileged white family playbook and are sending their kids to the elite institutions with all the pumped up APs and grades and ec's etc. So there is positive news for Black families as well. |
Anonymous
Maybe in 20 years, we'll see |
Anonymous
| The 80's was post civil rights where for the firsr time, small and growing numbers of black Americans started attending elite institutions in greater numbers. The '80's and '90's grads have raised elite kids now going to these schools. Agree that another generation is needed to further catch up even more. It is wild how long discrimination laws are taking to recover from. |
Anonymous
We know a family like this and their kids go to Spelman and Howard. Both parents went to top universities. Something else is going on |
Anonymous
| # of white at Duke also went down a lot, maybe it's just the way they're reporting numbers? |