Black enrollment falls below 8% for every top 20 ranked liberal arts college in the country

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Anonymous wrote:To interpret the "Asian" statistics, you should definitely look at the population demographics of the geography where the school is located not just the ranking.

The multiracial category also tends to be majority Asian…

But that’s the crux of the problem. The republicans have dismantled DEI on every level, allowing the massive increase of Asians into our universities.

I don’t see what the problem is.

The problem is we need DEIA restored to stop the increasing percentage of Asian/Indian students gaining admission to the T50 universities.

DEI will not be restored without a new Supreme Court and significant legislative action. That could take decades, if ever.

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Anonymous wrote:My multiracial child had a scholarship opportunity to attend one of these top LAC and passed due to rural location and small size. They’re not for everyone. Especially if you did not grow up admiring wasp life. These schools don’t appeal to many students - small, cold, remote, no vibrant city or busy campus culture. It’s a hard sell for many students of color.

Sure Karen…..my wasian kid actually attends one of these schools where she has many wasian friends. She was a bit concerned when she went and she says that it feels different than the Bay Area but doesn’t at all feel like a PWI environment.

She turned down both Pomona and CMC because she felt that this was the only time that she would have the opportunity to experience an environment like that of a rural SLAC. Her and her friends love it.

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Anonymous wrote:My multiracial child had a scholarship opportunity to attend one of these top LAC and passed due to rural location and small size. They’re not for everyone. Especially if you did not grow up admiring wasp life. These schools don’t appeal to many students - small, cold, remote, no vibrant city or busy campus culture. It’s a hard sell for many students of color.

Sure Karen…..my wasian kid actually attends one of these schools where she has many wasian friends. She was a bit concerned when she went and she says that it feels different than the Bay Area but doesn’t at all feel like a PWI environment.

She turned down both Pomona and CMC because she felt that this was the only time that she would have the opportunity to experience an environment like that of a rural SLAC. Her and her friends love it.

Asian SLAC (rural) grad here. Not fair to label PP as a Karen. The small rural LAC’s really aren’t for everyone. That isn’t to say they aren’t great in their own way. I enjoyed it but my kid (Asian) wasn’t interested, after touring a couple of them. People have different interests. Kid is happily attending a bigger, urban college.

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I analyzed the entering statistics for the Class of 2024 across the USNews top 20 ranked, non-military LACs. The domestic black population has fallen greatly across many LACs, especially Amherst, which once broke a record among all top colleges and universities at nearly 20% Black enrollment. It's also interesting that the domestic Asian percent seems to drop rapidly once you go past the top 10 LACs.

Most of the T30 will soon be plurality-Asian.

We will not be able to reverse that until DEIA is restored (maybe after 2028?).

2028 is when Don the con piggy is fully king if he lasts that long. If not him some other shit. Electitons are over for this country. People need to wake up that ship has sailed. MAGA stupids gave Republicans the country and there is no going back. Our courts will not hold and the Republican party is too treasonous.

Your writing style is interesting. LAC educated ?

Looks more like something from a striver CS student at an Ivy or UCB

SLAC grad would be like

By 2028, we may witness the final consolidation of an imperial presidency, assuming the current figurehead retains his vitality; if not him, then certainly a successor cut from the same illiberal cloth. We must confront the sobering possibility that the era of the meaningful democratic franchise in America has reached its twilight.

It is high time for a collective awakening: the institutional 'ship of state' has already cleared the harbor. The populist fervor of the MAGA movement has effectively handed the keys of the Republic to a party that appears increasingly comfortable with autocracy, and I fear the trajectory is irreversible. Our judiciary—once the final bulwark of the rule of law—is proving too brittle to withstand this pressure, and a Republican establishment seemingly untethered from constitutional norms has left the democratic project in a state of profound peril.

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Anonymous wrote:these lac threads are getting tiresome. they need a separate forum so the 3 people who care about these unknown schools can discuss further

Actually not sure why you re here. Your kids go to Towson

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Anonymous wrote:The hispanic numbers actually seem surprisingly high. Wouldn't have guessed that.

I know of a black kid currently at Harvey Mudd, so I guess that makes me pretty special as there are very, very few. Let's just say this kid is far from FGLI.

I wish the schools would stop even asking these questions. I'm not some anti-DEI Trumper but it is doing more harm than good. If you are concerned whether there are people like you at the school, go look around.

The US is 20% Hispanic, and the classification for the Hispanic category favors it because the other categories are all "non-hispanic" (e.g. if you're mixed race Hispanic, you get placed in the Hispanic box and not in multiracial).

So actually, they're underrepresented across the board relative to the census. Even at the top performers like Pomona and Harvey Mudd, California is nearly 40% Hispanic and LA County is 50% Hispanic, so their Hispanic numbers are quite a bit lower than the region overall.

Lies, darn lies, statistics. What percentage of the hispanic population is remotely interested in college? I'm not saying this to be nasty, racist or rude. It is just a fact. So those numbers are meaningless.

Colleges are tripping over themselves to virtue signal. I'm a Democrat. I am generally supportive of diversity. But I don't disagree that it has gone way overboard and become an obsession.

Excuse me? Please provide some data showing this “fact.”

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Looks like something a staff writer for MSNBC.

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Anonymous wrote:these lac threads are getting tiresome. they need a separate forum so the 3 people who care about these unknown schools can discuss further

Actually not sure why you re here. Your kids go to Towson

they go to schools far better than LACs. think the bigger school in Cambridge not the shithole in podunk mass

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Anonymous wrote:these lac threads are getting tiresome. they need a separate forum so the 3 people who care about these unknown schools can discuss further

Actually not sure why you re here. Your kids go to Towson

I never get that. You can choose not to look at a thread if you don’t want to read about these schools. My kids have no interest in ivies, so I don’t enter ivy threads complaining about x, y or z institution, because that is unproductive. Choose the threads and advice that applies to you.

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Anonymous wrote:The discrimination is so obvious it’s a bit depressing. Pomona class of 2027 is 14.1% black. How the hell did they discriminate against other students so much that that number plummeted to 5%? Amherst went from 11 to 3%?! It’s bizarre we allowed AA to last as long as we did.

The numbers show discrimination - just not in the way that you think.

How is it discrimination that schools aren’t giving black people unnecessary boosts in admission? California is about 5% black and Pomona draws heavily from California. Why was it ever 14% black?

And Harvey Mudd now has 3% black students.

Both are national LACs and draw students from all across the country, which is 12% black.

How on earth is that acceptable?

Black students face discrimination in the admissions process, leading to their diminished representation.

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Anonymous wrote:these lac threads are getting tiresome. they need a separate forum so the 3 people who care about these unknown schools can discuss further

Actually not sure why you re here. Your kids go to Towson

they go to schools far better than LACs. think the bigger school in Cambridge not the shithole in podunk mass

Emmanuel, good for you!

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Anonymous wrote:these lac threads are getting tiresome. they need a separate forum so the 3 people who care about these unknown schools can discuss further

Actually not sure why you re here. Your kids go to Towson

they go to schools far better than LACs. think the bigger school in Cambridge not the shithole in podunk mass

Oh….you mean one of those semi-selective public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:The discrimination is so obvious it’s a bit depressing. Pomona class of 2027 is 14.1% black. How the hell did they discriminate against other students so much that that number plummeted to 5%? Amherst went from 11 to 3%?! It’s bizarre we allowed AA to last as long as we did.

The numbers show discrimination - just not in the way that you think.

How is it discrimination that schools aren’t giving black people unnecessary boosts in admission? California is about 5% black and Pomona draws heavily from California. Why was it ever 14% black?

And Harvey Mudd now has 3% black students.

Both are national LACs and draw students from all across the country, which is 12% black.

How on earth is that acceptable?

Black students face discrimination in the admissions process, leading to their diminished representation.

Harvey mudd is a top stem school that demands students come in with a strong background. If you look at how poor black students do on standardized exams compared to other students, 3% is pretty great!

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Anonymous wrote:The discrimination is so obvious it’s a bit depressing. Pomona class of 2027 is 14.1% black. How the hell did they discriminate against other students so much that that number plummeted to 5%? Amherst went from 11 to 3%?! It’s bizarre we allowed AA to last as long as we did.

The numbers show discrimination - just not in the way that you think.

How is it discrimination that schools aren’t giving black people unnecessary boosts in admission? California is about 5% black and Pomona draws heavily from California. Why was it ever 14% black?

And Harvey Mudd now has 3% black students.

Both are national LACs and draw students from all across the country, which is 12% black.

How on earth is that acceptable?

Black students face discrimination in the admissions process, leading to their diminished representation.

Harvey mudd is a top stem school that demands students come in with a strong background. If you look at how poor black students do on standardized exams compared to other students, 3% is pretty great!

Yes - what discrimination are black students facing in the admissions process?