Yale Daily News Survey on Class of 2028: 13.1% Black, 19.4% Hispanic

[Anonymous]

I know we're taking grains and salts, since it isn't official from Yale Admissions, but this supports that Yale wasn't heavy on the AA, and they do admissions by merit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This chart is perplexing.

85 percent of Yale students identify as white or asian.

20 percent identify as hispanic.

Uh... somebody help me with the rest of the math.

My son's race is white. His ethnicity is Hispanic. There are plenty of white Hispanics out there.

Why can't they just differentiate as 'two or more races'? This is not a good way to present the data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This chart is perplexing.

85 percent of Yale students identify as white or asian.

20 percent identify as hispanic.

Uh... somebody help me with the rest of the math.

My son's race is white. His ethnicity is Hispanic. There are plenty of white Hispanics out there.

Why can't they just differentiate as 'two or more races'? This is not a good way to present the data.

This is a pretty typical way demographic data is presented. Official university announcements are done this way and will have a small notice that the percentages will be above 100%

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Id imagine you’re going to get some weird instances where the black students who have really high stats are going to get into the ivies easier. So there’s still a discrimination against Asian Americans but All the black students taking up those spots have 1500+ SATs, so the colleges don’t lose a lawsuit.

This doesn’t even make any sense. So high stat black students are somehow “taking up the spots” of Asian students. This ‘blame the black students’ trope is played out and getting ridiculous

If I were a discriminatory elite institution, I’d do this exact strategy to avoid getting sued

There aren't enough 1500+ black students. That's the entire point behind going test optional.

In general? Agreed. But enough to fill a few seats at Yale? Yes, there actually are

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Id imagine you’re going to get some weird instances where the black students who have really high stats are going to get into the ivies easier. So there’s still a discrimination against Asian Americans but All the black students taking up those spots have 1500+ SATs, so the colleges don’t lose a lawsuit.

Sorry to break it to you but Asians don’t corner the market in intelligence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty close to 2020 Census Data.

The most prevalent racial or ethnic group for the United States was the White alone non-Hispanic population at 57.8%. This decreased from 63.7% in 2010.

The Hispanic or Latino population was the second-largest racial or ethnic group, comprising 18.7% of the total population.

The Black or African American alone non-Hispanic population was the third-largest group at 12.1%.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/2020-united-states-population-more-racially-ethnically-diverse-than-2010.html

Do you think the census data is reflective of the diversity of Yale’s applicant pool? I think not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know we're taking grains and salts, since it isn't official from Yale Admissions, but this supports that Yale wasn't heavy on the AA, and they do admissions by merit.

Actually the opposite. What percent of their applicant pool do you think is black? I’m guessing well under 5%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know we're taking grains and salts, since it isn't official from Yale Admissions, but this supports that Yale wasn't heavy on the AA, and they do admissions by merit.

Actually the opposite. What percent of their applicant pool do you think is black? I’m guessing well under 5%.

Source?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A very large percentage of 18 year olds in the US have very mixed backgrounds - white, hispanic, asian, black, native American, Pacific Islander. It's becoming a pretty useless way to differentiate younger people. We're pretty good with melting our pots.

That's true for lower/middle class.

And upper class. DD goes to a private school where many, many of the kids are mixed race (and NOT just Asian-white).

[Anonymous]

I think realistically it should be cerca

White 60%
Asian 35%
Latin 3%
Black 2%