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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So does my white son have an easier or harder time getting into UVA today?[/quote]
UVA is majority White and Asian. There are only 6% Blacks and 6% Hispanics. Your white son will do just fine just like all the other white men in this country who have been doing great for the past few centuries.

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-virginia-main-campus/student-life/diversity/[/quote]
Just say it's majority White. Asians only comprise of 15% of the whole student body.[/quote]

Which is more than 2x their proportion of the population nationally and statewide.[/quote]

Exactly. And blacks are only 28% of the nation.

[b]Libidiots always leave these pieces of math out.[/b][/quote]

If you compare the demographics of the state, University of Virginia has about the same or slightly fewer White students than you would expect based on state demographics, nearly double the Asian students you would expect based on state demographics, and only 1/2 of the Black population you would expect. [b] So for all the memorials to the enslaved people who built the universities and gave labor to the founders of the universities and currently pay state taxes that help support the universities, only half as many Black students as there are proportionately in the state get to attend the flagship university.  [/b]

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Truth.[/quote]

Yes, but how do you rectify that even if race could still be considered?  Qutoas?  Lottery admissions (which could lead to students not fully prepared for the rigors of a UVA education)?  It's not like UVA (or VT, etc.) were trying to exclude Black students in recent years.  [b]Quite the contrary.[/b]  [/quote]

It's hard work and few institutions have yet shown they really want to put in the hard work.  One you have to create a culture that is genuinely welcoming and that is hard to do when you have a history like UVA, the faculty and admin don't reflect the diversity of the student body yet, and there's still strong racial divisions in terms of who has access to strong K-12 schools.  But there are more than enough qualified Black students in Virginia who could cope with the rigors of UVA education--they just have to be supported well once there.  Legality aside, if a university could say we will take the top 10% of Black students  from Virginia who want to go to UVA--building out a strong sizeable population of  Black students and then provided special support programs, advocates and advising for this cohort, I think you would start to have powerful and connected communities of Black alumni who could recruit future classes.  Maybe it could be billed as a reparations program--Black descendants of slaves in Virginia are guaranteed admission and a full scholarship to Virginia's state public schools--students rank order their preferences and the top x percent are admitted to their top choices as there are spots available, whether it's UVA/WM/VT  or wherever,  but everyone is guaranteed a spot somewhere, even if it's starting out at CC if they are not yet academically ready for 4 year college.  [/quote]

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