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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Again - the kids from our school who got in are not URM or first generation. I'm sure there are kids at other schools who are who also had the stats to get in, but none from our school. You don't know who actually got in and why. Please stop pretending you do. [/quote] 
According to College Factual, Va Tech is 64.5% White and 10.3% Asian. [b]Its is 6.9% Hispanic and the number of black students is less than 5% (it's so small, there's no % reported[/b]). So once again, the numbers don't support the racist lie that only URM kids are getting admitted. If you doubt the numbers, get a cup of coffee at the cafeteria and confirm them yourself.  [/quote]

VT is emphasizing increasing enrollment of Black and Hispanic students BECAUSE they are such a ridiculously low % of the student population. I worked with a Black, 1st Gen student last year who was admitted to the business school who benefited from this because he got in with lower stats than the average (but still good). However, we discovered one reason VT is not getting a lot of 1st gen students is because, despite the boost in admissions, they give crap financial aid. So he's going to CC. If they really want to hit their goal of 40% URM/1st Gen they need a much bigger financial aid budget, not just giving those students an advantage in admissions.

Plenty of not URM/1st Gen kids also get admitted and are more likely to actually enroll.[/quote]

To be clear a URM isn't necessarily 1st Gen and a 1st Gen isn't necessarily URM, people need to stop conflating the two.[/quote]

Definitely. There are a lot of 1st gen white and Asian students. The VT goal includes any 1st gen AND any URM[/quote]

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