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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP: first PP here - I found demographics percentages with a very quick Google search, but didn't post them. I was surprised to find that Liberty was 25% black and also had a large chunk of Latino population.[/quote]

Can you please post your source?[/quote]

http://collegestats.org/college/liberty-university/admissions[/quote]

But this also says they get 64,000 applicants. For a school that says on its own website that its "residential" enrollment is 12,600 students.

http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=6925

The notion that a school of this size gets 64,000 applications is patently ridiculous. Compare, for example, the much larger Virginia Tech, which according to the college stats website gets about 30,000 applicants. Or the University of Texas--Austin, one of the largest universities in the country, which gets 50,000 applications for undergraduate admission.

Liberty has one of the largest on-line learning programs in the country. I think the 64,000 applicants must be counting participants in the on-line program. Which makes me suspect their demographic information is based on enrollment numbers that include the on-line program. Whether or not the demographics of on-line students are the same as those living on campus is anyone's guess.

IMO, Liberty engages in a lot of squirrely reporting of stats that suggests a desire to obfuscate. I find that curious. YMMV.[/quote]

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