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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]So to the person who keeps this going who says they aren’t “anti-UVA,” what is your goal here?

1992 is before UVA promised to keep 2/3 Virginians. Did you think of that? It was before other schools in Virginia diversified their academic offerings (VCU was primarily an art school then, for example). So much has changed. Who TF cares about a number from 1992?

Again, what is your goal here?[[/b]/quote]

+1.  Sometimes people on this site just have to keep hammering away even if proven wrong.  If it involves UVA, it is usually a VTech student or UMD student (rivals).  I was at the convocation last week.  Jim Ryan told thousands present that the percentage of black students has gone up.  He also said the number of first-generation students were up.  That SAT scores were the best ever.  That number of low-income students were up and that number of Pell Grants students were up. That's good enough for me.  SCHEV is valuable but uses old stats or what stats it had back in 1992.  The SCHEV results for class of 2023 won't come out until late Nov. or early Dec.[/quote]

I haven't been proven wrong.  The facts presented all support my point.  The best you can do is throw out red herrings.

I'll state my point once again.  People on this site present the "people of color" stat for UVA as if it is becoming more open to disadvantage groups.  But this is not the case for blacks.  The percentage of blacks (self reported) at UVA has declined significantly over time, regardless of the options available.  There may be an uptick in the 2019 data, but the trend over time has been significantly down.[/quote]

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