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Percentage of students that are black is going down.[/quote]

[b]When the government changed the rules to allow "multirace" as a category (about 10 years ago), all of the demographics in the population changed. It shouldn't be a surprise that the % of black students dropped.

In addition, colleges can't compel students to provide their race/ethnicity. The data you get is of those who opted to report something. [/quote][/b]

+1.  this is correct.  It's also correct that the number of black students (both parents) is up at UVA.  [/quote]

You didn't read the previous posts carefully.  It may be possible that the number of black students increased for the one year from 2018 to 2019.  Set that aside.  What the long term data shows is the number has declined, and this is separate from the multi-race reporting option.  The number of self-identified blacks in the incoming class dropped from 332, or 12.4% of the class in 1993, to 282, or 8.7% in 2009, the last year before the multi-race reporting option was introduced.  Note that class size increased during that time period and the percentage of self-reported blacks in the state remained constant at about 19.5%.   A similar decline occurred after the introduction of the multi-race option.[/quote]

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