“Over-indexing on race”

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of world do we live in where people define themselves primarily by their perceived/imagined oppression?

Brought to you by the Democratic party and the progressives.

Or brought to you by The Aggrieved Whites of DCUM™

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Over-index simply means more than the statistical average based on another set of data. It wasn't a criticism, just a note that NU appeared to be both trying to "look like the country" while also not letting that desire impact merit.

The youth data tracks fairly close to national data by the way. "Just under half (49%) of all youth under age 18 were female, and 54% were under age 10. Non-Hispanic white youth accounted for 52% of the 2020 youth population, non-Hispanic Black youth accounted for 15%, and Hispanic youth accounted for one-fourth (26%)."

Adult white population is 60%, though. The Hispanic under 18 population is larger than the Hispanic adult population by a fair amount.

Multiracial group is growing. One day, hopefully, that group will be the majority so we can stop looking at race for everything. Full disclosure: my kids are biracial.

Asians under 18 is 8% not 6%. Asian population is growing not shrinking.

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Anonymous wrote:Race is not color. Race is not ethnicity Colleges -- and most communities - see race as culture and a shared set of experiences that are often driven by other people's reactions to color. Nuanced but very different. So colleges looking to broaden their scope are looking for broad ranges of experience, not just ticking a color box. Don't expect that to ever stop, one way or the other.

In other words, race is victimhood. Yet oddly colleges justify racial preferences by the theory of diversity- which would suggest it’s about cultural diversity

Certainly true on DCUM where white and Asian parents are always aggrieved that the admissions process was stacked against their child.