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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since the data is compared to the entire US population, it shows that relative to the population, fewer black and hispanic kids are going to college. The reason for this does not begin and end at the college admission officer's desk, and to suggest so (as OP's title does) fails to focus on the bigger issues of what is preventing these kids from getting into the applicant pool in the first place. You can't hold colleges accountable for failing to admit people who can't or didn't apply for whatever reasons (didn't graduate high school, incarceration, already working in field that doesn't require a degree, etc.). You can't fix a problem if you don't focus on it properly. Use the right data to make the right points.[/quote]

Good point. Which is why it's also unfair to condemn companies for not having diversity numbers that represent the US population. I worked at a software company and we had very few women and non-Asian minorities on our software development team. The reason is the universities simply weren't graduating enough of them with computer science degrees. We were happy to hire them, but we just couldnt' find them.[/quote]

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