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Actual statistics of the Yale student body by ethnicity: - American Indian or Alaska Native 0.3% - Asian 14.7% - Black or African-American 5.8% - Hispanic o
by jollofricepeas 6y ago
Actual statistics of the Yale student body by ethnicity:
- American Indian or Alaska Native 0.3%
- Asian 14.7%
- Black or African-American 5.8%
- Hispanic of any race 9.8%
- Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0.1%
- White 42.7%
- Race/ethnicity unknown 1.0
SOURCE:
https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts
- jollofricepeas 6y agoUS population by ethnicity (2019) - Black or African American alone, percent(a) 13.4% - American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent(a) 1.3% - Asian alone, percent(a)5.9% - Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent(a) 0.2% - Two or More Races, percent 2.8% - Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 18.5% SOURCE: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoYou have not provided any data on how many qualified applications they get from each ethnicity. You've basically said nothing.
- newfriend 6y agoIs there some reason you specifically omitted the White category? - White alone, percent 76.3%
- code_sloth 6y agoAre there any ethnicity statistics (or estimates) on actual applicants to yale? It's apples vs oranges when we compare to the US population.
- naveen99 6y agoIt’s hard to find global numbers by these categories, but I think world class universities should look at global numbers rather than usa only numbers... if they are going to look at demographics at all. if you look at global numbers, caltech demographics may be pretty close to being proportional representation.
- rbecker 6y agoThe US makes up about 4% of the global population. So it would only makes sense to expect Yale to be close to global representation if only about 4% of its students were from the US. And I'm sure there are many world-class universities in India, China, Japan, Egypt, Turkey... Are they pretty close to proportional if you look at global numbers? For example, Kyoto University or Peking University, both world class institutions, does their student body reflect the global population, or the Japanese/Chinese population?
- naveen99 6y agoWhat I mean is us is a melting pot / magnet for upward social mobility. So I expect in the long run, the annual cohort of bright children would be proportionally represented here in the top Private universities / companies. Or... I expect the demographics of hn users to be more similar to global demographics rather than us demographics.
- newfriend 6y agoNote: these do not add up to 100%, because they are ignoring international students. So whatever comparison you're trying to do with US demographics needs to be normalized.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoThanks; I was trying to figure out why their total came to ~75%.
- fraudsyndrome 6y agoNot sure what assumptions are to be made by comparing this with US population by ethnicity except that they should be match up - which I don't agree with. Also are Jewish people considered White in this case? I simultaneously see that they are referred to as minorities but also don't see them represented in statistics such as these when comparing ethnicity in X with ethnic population in the US.
- peteretep 6y ago> Not sure what assumptions are to be made by comparing this with US population by ethnicity except that they should be match up - which I don't agree with. Why don't you think they should match up?
- FiberBundle 6y agoBecause they should be based on merit.
- take_a_breath 6y agoThen the concept of “legacy students” should be illegal.
- LanceH 6y agoAlumni paying millions (billions) of dollars over years is of great merit to a private university.
- take_a_breath 6y agoSure, but it proves that admission is not based on the student’s merit. It discriminates against those whose parents did not attend the school.
- LanceH 6y ago
- jbullock35 6y agoThose percentages are a little different from the percentages given (along with much other detail) by Yale's Office of Institutional Research: https://oir.yale.edu/sites/default/files/w004_enroll_racegen_1920.pdf https://oir.yale.edu/sites/default/files/w004_enroll_racegen.... The percentages at the link above are labeled as "University-wide Enrollments," which seems to mean that they account for graduate students as well as undergraduates. But the DOJ finding is only about undergraduate admissions.
- enriquto 6y ago> Hispanic of any race what does that even mean, exactly? I fail to see how can it be defined to be non-intersecting with the other categories.