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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA placing better than Midd? Laughable. You are probably from below the Mason-Dixon Line and clearly are out of your league. Let the big boys do the talking. You probably make under 300k.[/quote]

Are you talking about Middlebury? The Vermont school with fewer than 5% Black students? The one for wealthy white kids in a state that is comprised of more than 92% white folks? Going to school there is not the way to get a stellar education. Insulated, yes.[/quote]

So much anger.[/quote]
[b]92% sounds pretty exact. But it’s wrong.[/b]

64% of domestic students at Midd are white… https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Middlebury&s=all&id=230959#enrolmt

Colby is 62% (though with fewer internationals), and Conn College is 73% white domestic (with the fewest internationals of the three schools).
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The state of Vermont's demographics = 92% white. The percentage of Black students at Middlebury is less than 5%.[/quote]
Not sure the point you are even trying to make, but 6% of domestic students at Midd are black; it is not “less than 5%.”[/quote]

The point is that posters like this one ("UVA placing better than Midd? Laughable. You are probably from below the Mason-Dixon Line and clearly are out of your league. Let the big boys do the talking. You probably make under 300k") mock southern schools and refer to the Mason-Dixon line when schools like Middlebury have very few Black students and are not very diverse. [/quote]
I do get your point but keep in mind that UVA is pretty embarrassing on this front: Virginia is 20% black and only 7% of domestic students at UVA are. UVA was clearly dropping the ball under affirmative action. 
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What seems embarrassing is the performance of black students and the K12 schools serving them. UVA cannot do miracles.[/quote]
No, but UVA probably has the worst differential in this regard of any prestigious state school that had affirmative action (nor does it compare well with states having already banned it) so look in the mirror, Virginians. [/quote]

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