How often do you think applicants lie about their race?
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Anonymous
Forgot to add that you can look up data supplied to the federal government here: https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/ |
Anonymous
I don't know about JHU but I was listening to a NYTimes podcast with the president of Oberlin and she was defending the percentages of racial minorities, particularly Black students at her school, and mentioned that students who checked the "other" box are put in the multiracial category or maybe aren't fully factored into the final score, at least for Oberlin. Not sure if that's a thing at other, larger colleges. |
Anonymous
Most Latinos at hopkins are fake |
Anonymous
Most statements that make claims that sound ridiculous are fake. |
Anonymous
I think whites have a case to be made like that of UNC. 19% is discrimination on skin color. Their make up isn’t anywhere close to representative of US demographics. When colleges get to the point that they are basically saying we don’t want you here (which is pretty much what every talk on many campus is), it’s discrimination. It will be interesting to see if any of this changes after the Supreme Court case is heard. |
Anonymous
| I'm a white Hispanic with freckled scottish skin and blue eyes. I claim Hispanic, because I am. Hispanic is a culture, not a race. My first language was Spanish and I speak English natively. I never lie about this, but it is a ridiculous question on applications amd for the census. |
Anonymous
Is the goal for Hopkins to match US demographics or Maryland/Baltimore? I would argue the latter, in which case they're really behind on Black too. |
Anonymous
I worked for "Hopkins" for years; I even received tuition remission to attend graduate-level business classes. There are many ways to define "Hopkins." for example, I worked for CTY, which has now moved to a campus in Mount Washkngton (still technically inside city limits, I suppose). You have heard of JHU Hospital? It is NOT on the grounds of Homewood - and most would assume Homewood IS the main campus. But, There is also JHU Bayview - a hospital in another neighborhood apart from the main hospital and the undergrad campus. Then there is Washington D.C. - DuPont in fact. SAIS - a graduate school of JHU is here. A massive international contingent attends SAIS. But back to my business classes: they were NOT on the main Homewood campus; they were in rented space downtown, and were professional-development (ie - night school), not MBA. It is obvious "Hopkins" has ample room to interpret "their" racial makeup in many ways, according to what is more beneficial to their admissions office. Not technically a lie. |
Anonymous
Nice try. But this was data for the kids enrolled on campus, undergrads in Baltimore on the main campus. 19% for Caucasians is abysmally low when they make up by a good majority the largest demographic in the US. |
Anonymous
I would hope it would be to not discriminate against anyone based on skin color/ethnicity. |
Anonymous
+1 Also report 50% black people who claim to be black. |
Anonymous
Sure, and you would know that was happening when their demographics don't match...what population? Hopkins accepts a growing number of international applications (around 20%?) White people are around 15% of the world's population. So 19% for Hopkins seems fine then. |
Anonymous
Hopkins International population is primarily from India, China and South Korea. Facts. |
Anonymous
Yep. Not white. The 19% white stat is shocking but true. It’s very, very low considering the US population demographics. |
Anonymous
Good for them. What's your point? |