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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not an expert researcher.  But the article is missing some data that I want.  The article is using college age population for each group as the base.  I don't want that to be the only information I'm given.  I would like to know what percent of the total population base of each group has even applied to college at all. Does that make sense?   Maybe the % is the same if you compare it to total number of college applicants rather than total percent of college age kids of each group. [/quote]

I think that's a really good point and would make a tremendous difference to the figures. "College aged" is not sufficient it is a blanket group which will include non-English speakers, kids who dropped out of high school aged 16 or thereabouts and those who went into trades with no intention of ever attending college. Its not a detailed enough category.[/quote]

No, that's entirely the point.  You start from the premise that all kids are equally educable.  Not that some people by virture of their skin color drop out at higher rates. [/quote]

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