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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Johns Hopkins is only 19% white (under-represented); 19% Hispanic; 15% Black; 29% Asian…

Curious.[/quote]

I worked at JHU and there is no way the Black population of undergrads is 15%. Your numbers are off according to several sources, including JHU's CDS: https://oir.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/CDS_2021-2022.pdf

White 24%
Black 8%
Asian 27%
Hispanic 18%

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I could give you the flier my kid received on his tour. It’s the numbers they have in their current pamphlet.[/quote]

My daughter did a tour too.  This is true:

STUDENT EXPERIENCE
AT HOPKINS, YOU'LL FIND PEOPLE WHO SHARE SIMILAR VALUES AND INTERESTS, AND MEET PEOPLE WITH COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON THE WORLD. Discussions spill out of classrooms, and novel ideas often find their spark on the way to grab lunch.
Students represent 50 states & 80 countries
15% African American/Black
2% Native American/Pacific Islander
29% Asian American
19% Hispanic/Latinx
1% Unknown
19% White/Caucasian
15% International[/quote]

I worked for "Hopkins" for years; I even received tuition remission to attend graduate-level business classes.

There are many ways to define "Hopkins." for example, I worked for CTY, which has now moved to a campus in Mount Washkngton (still technically inside city limits, I suppose).

You have heard of JHU Hospital?  It is NOT on the grounds of Homewood - and most would assume Homewood IS the main campus.  But,

There is also JHU Bayview - a hospital in another neighborhood apart from the main hospital and the undergrad campus.

Then there is Washington D.C. - DuPont in fact.  SAIS - a graduate school of JHU is here.  A massive international contingent attends SAIS.

But back to my business classes: they were NOT on the main Homewood campus; they were in rented space downtown, and were professional-development (ie - night school), not MBA.

It is obvious "Hopkins" has ample room to interpret "their" racial makeup in many ways, according to what is more beneficial to their admissions office.

Not technically a lie. [/quote]

Nice try.  But this was data for the kids enrolled on campus, undergrads in Baltimore on the main campus.  19% for Caucasians is abysmally low when they make up by a good majority the largest demographic in the US.[/quote]

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