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04/20/2017 17:10

Subject: Re:We visited UVA this weekend...

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Anonymous wrote:We also visited UVA two weeks ago. We liked it overall, it is a good safety school for us and they do have a program that my child is interested in. The only thing that really jumped up to me is how white is the student body. We've spent on the campus the entire day, and then ate a dinner near UVA and probably saw 3 asian kids and one or two AA. It is such a big difference from what we've seen in Harvard or Columbia.

I'm Asian and I hear this all the time from current students at UVA. How white UVA is.

Here is UVA's demographic breakdown:

0.1% American Indian/Alaskan Native
13.1% Asian
6.5% Black/African-American
6.4% Hispanic/Latino
4.7% Multi-race (not Hispanic/Latino)
0.0% Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander
63.3% White
5.8% Unknown

It's also about 8 percent Jewish, and when I went there a decade ago had the most active Jewish campus life at any Virginia school, FWIW.

So it's less diverse than Harvard or Columbia but hardly all southern WASPs.

I attended UVA and most of my friends were Asian or black. I participated in a sorority but did not have a drinking problem. Definitely went to parties but there's a lot to do and lots of other groups and outlets other than Greek. I played a lot of IM sports, a lot of students volunteer, participate in music, singing, the arts, student government, radio, newspaper, U Guides, and more. I didn't know any slackers but I did know a lot of people who would work hard and play hard. My college friends have all been very successful adults.

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Your statistics are old. For the class of 2020: Caucasian down to 57%. Asian Americans up to 14%+ plus additional breakdowns for Native Hawaiians, etc.
Enrollment by race (sorry chart won't work here)
White American
Asian American
African American
Multi-Race American
Hispanic American
Non-Resident Alien
Native American or Alaska Native
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
Unclassified or Unknown

Prior to 2009, students were only given the opportunity to list themselves in one racial category. Starting in 2009:

*Students of mixed race/ethnicity were encouraged to report their race/ethnicity in more than one category.
The Asian/Pacific Islander category was split into two new categories: (1) Asian, and (2) Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.
Hispanic was considered to be an ethnicity, separate from the other racial categories.
The University is required to report students in only one category in order to avoid duplication. Trumping rules are used to determine in which categories to count students of mixed race/ethnicity:

Any student who is a non-resident alien foreign student is counted as non-resident, no matter his or her race or ethnicity. (This was not a new rule in 2009.)
A student who did not give any race/ethnicity information is designated “Unknown.”
Any other student who is of Hispanic ethnicity is counted in the Hispanic category, no matter what other race he or she may have reported.
Any student who listed more than one race, and is not of Hispanic ethnicity, is counted in a new category called “multiple race.”
All remaining students, those who chose only one racial category (and are not of Hispanic ethnicity), are put into that category.
SOURCE: George Stovall, Office of Institutional Assessment and Studies