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In 1992, it was 11.5%.  The percentage has been declining steadily over time while the population statewide has been holding steady on a percentage basis.[/quote]

[b]One more time: ten years ago, the categories changes. You can't compare numbers from 1992 and today. They were not collected in the same manner.

One more time again: you do not have the real number of black students. You just have the number that reported it.[/[/b]quote]

+1.  And the percentage  of black students is up for class of 2023.  Go talk to Jim Ryan if you don't believe me.  I was there when he said it.  1992 is a utterly irrelevant in today's college world.[/quote]

So you are saying the percentage is irrelevant because it is self-reported and the methodology has changed, but then you appeal to the authority of Jim Ryan who cites a slight increase in the percentage from 2018 to 2019.

During the time period when there was no "Multi-race" option, 1992 to 2009, there was a 23% drop in the percentage of students that reported as black.  Since that time, 2010 to 2018, there has been an additional 6.5% decline in the percentage of students that report as black.

In 2018, UVA had only 6.5% of first time undergraduates identify as black.  Contrast that with the 2010 census (where multi-race was an option), where 19.4% of the population identified as black (2000 was 19.6% and 1990 was 18.8%).

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