A very large percentage of 18 year olds in the US have very mixed backgrounds - white, hispanic, asian, black, native American, Pacific Islander. It's becoming a pretty useless way to differentiate younger people. We're pretty good with melting our pots.

Anonymous wrote:Id imagine you’re going to get some weird instances where the black students who have really high stats are going to get into the ivies easier. So there’s still a discrimination against Asian Americans but All the black students taking up those spots have 1500+ SATs, so the colleges don’t lose a lawsuit.

This is an interesting point. The reverse could be more of an issue. A high ranking Asian kid could be rejected because that kid throws the average off for other groups. The end if affirmative action means that we only look at who got in, not who was rejected.

Anonymous wrote:This chart is perplexing.

85 percent of Yale students identify as white or asian.

20 percent identify as hispanic.

Uh... somebody help me with the rest of the math.

My son's race is white. His ethnicity is Hispanic. There are plenty of white Hispanics out there.

17% legacy (or "familial ties") of which a third say their family income is $500k+.
Sigh.

Id imagine you’re going to get some weird instances where the black students who have really high stats are going to get into the ivies easier. So there’s still a discrimination against Asian Americans but All the black students taking up those spots have 1500+ SATs, so the colleges don’t lose a lawsuit.

Anonymous wrote:Many of these Hispanics are as lily white as they get and just have Hispanic ancestry to put on their app. 23 and Me helped out big time here.

What about the "white" looking (as you say) students who clearly have Hispanic sounding last names? Are they not Hispanic? You really can't tell and sound ignorant.

lowest SAT scores? athletes

Anonymous wrote:This chart is perplexing.

85 percent of Yale students identify as white or asian.

20 percent identify as hispanic.

Uh... somebody help me with the rest of the math.

They tell the respondents to check "all that apply" their racial identity. I guess there's a lot of mixed race kids getting in. From my experiences, there's quite a lot of White-Asian mixed race kids going to Ivy League schools in recent years.

Interestingly, Maryland has one of the highest diversity indices. It's #4 of 50 states.

Diversity Index Varies by Geographic Level

During the same period, the largest racial or ethnic group has changed for some states and counties, and local level results illuminate new areas of diversity across the country.

Table 1 shows the 10 states with the highest DI in the 2020 Census and their 2020 and 2010 census values.

In general, the states with the highest DI scores are found in the West (Hawaii, California and Nevada), the South (Maryland and Texas, along with the District of Columbia, a state equivalent) and the Northeast (New York and New Jersey).

Hawaii had the highest DI in 2020 at 76%, which was slightly higher than its 75.1% DI in 2010.

Of the states listed here, Maryland had the largest DI gain, increasing from 60.7% in 2010 to 67.3% in 2020.

Pretty close to 2020 Census Data.

The most prevalent racial or ethnic group for the United States was the White alone non-Hispanic population at 57.8%. This decreased from 63.7% in 2010.

The Hispanic or Latino population was the second-largest racial or ethnic group, comprising 18.7% of the total population.

The Black or African American alone non-Hispanic population was the third-largest group at 12.1%.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/2020-united-states-population-more-racially-ethnically-diverse-than-2010.html

This chart is perplexing.

85 percent of Yale students identify as white or asian.

20 percent identify as hispanic.

Uh... somebody help me with the rest of the math.

Anonymous wrote:Many of these Hispanics are as lily white as they get and just have Hispanic ancestry to put on their app. 23 and Me helped out big time here.

Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. 23andme is irrelevant. The old definition from the National Hispanic Recognition Program was a grandparent from one of a list of countries. I don't think NHRP currently defines it.

Many of these Hispanics are as lily white as they get and just have Hispanic ancestry to put on their app. 23 and Me helped out big time here.

Note that some respondents identified themselves as identifying with multiple racial categories.

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/08/30/data-the-class-of-2028-in-numbers/

This is an unofficial survey with only 540 respondents, but it's an interesting glimpse into the new class of Yale students. None of the Ivies have published disaggregated racial data yet.