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[quote=Anonymous][quote]    We are visiting colleges now with our DCs. According to DCUM, we should be seeing plenty of URM « black boys » on these campuses. We simply are not. But do carry on lamenting how these Black boys are stealing your white and Asian kids’ spots at Ivy schools and How life will swing the pendulum back and will be fair again. 😏

True. We've been on tours of the T20 schools. Across 5-10 schools, we've seen very very few URMs and almost no black males. Most of the people on DCUM college threads are astute. They look at Common Data Sets and know the demographic stats. [/quote]
This mirrors our experience as well. There just aren't that many black kids either on tours or on campus, especially males. There are a few more Latino kids, but even then, not many. The majority of the students are white and Asian, so much so that my DC now looks at the demographic data on the school's CDS before we visit. Conversely, we were at VT's admitted student/Open House this weekend and the engineering students were overwhelmingly Asian males - like 85%. So, the line that those kids aren't getting accepted or facing discrimination doesn't gel with what we're seeing on the ground or the schools' CDS. [/quote]

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