I was a graduate student at UVA in the early 90s. As part of our RA duties we would meet with the professor when he went over the exam grades. It was eye opening to me to see that the bottom 5-10% of the class were almost always black students, and the majority were well below average. These were anonymously graded exams. It became very clear that a large percentage of the black students simply weren’t qualified to be there. I felt sorry for the 25% of the black kids who absolutely belonged there; I’m sure people assumed they were unqualified. Of course UVA, like most “prestigious” schools, graduates almost everyone who gets in, so the majority still earned degrees. I’m curious if this kind of data caused UVA to be a little more careful in who they accepted later on. |
Fascinating. |
Thank you for sharing your experience there. |
Good Ole boy network. The below-average legacy white students ( mostly males) were given a pass. |
I’m curious what kind of program this was. I read an interesting article earlier this year about a white professor who noticed a similar trend in his intro class for a STEM program (I do not remember the specific discipline). What he also discovered was that the few Black students in his class were often left out of study groups formed by their classmates. When he started forming the study groups which included the Black students, there was little to no discernible trend in student performance based on race. |
Wow. I didn’t realize that study group formation was limited by race. |
Also there are low income Asians who care more about education. There are plenty of Aisans who are relatively weaker on test, but excel on other factors. |
Charlottesville is not the center of white supremacy. Are you saying that because of the rally there a few years ago? If so, then you know nothing about Cville--signed, an African American UVA grad (but I guess I do not need to speak, there are lots of you out there willing to speak on AA UVA students' behalf--and yes, I would not say that UVA was awesome, not because of the social construct of race, but because it is a big ol' impersonal state school, it really isn't a special place) |
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For many universities, lower HHI and very rural zip code will be a big hook. Other hooks also will change.
Within maybe 5 years all universities will have new criteria to get the diversity they aeek. |
If they try to select by race no matter what there will be lawsuits, stop it, be race blind, stop breaking the law and our constitution |
Yes, they will be picking the top students, but don’t be surprised that the schools selected will be 85% or higher populated by URMs. The schools knew this was coming for years and have proxies in place to maintain diversity without violating the law. |
You’re wrong. They’re not limited by race, but they typically are limited by invitation. If there are preconceived notions based on stereotypes, then it will limit those invitations. |
+1 It's the social exclusion factor at PWIs. Yet whites on campus expect the blacks to 'assimilate" then wonder why there's a "black" cafeteria table. Why don't you reach out! |
Computer Science. Intro programming course. |
Colleges have been enthusiastically tryin got market them selves to first Gen, low income, and rural students for a long time. Are people coming to the college forum for the first time because of the ruling? I’ve never seen so many comments suggesting the AOs consider factors we all know they already consider. |