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Uhhh... this pretty much says to me there are a lot of affluent kids being rejected who have done well in school and their parents are flipping shit. More than
by rubyn00bie 6y ago
Uhhh... this pretty much says to me there are a lot of affluent kids being rejected who have done well in school and their parents are flipping shit. More than likely this is solely for the press during an election cycle to win affluent votes/money/donations.
Here are Yale's student body demographics, from the department of education's scorecard [1]:
42% White
19% Asian
13% Hispanic
11% Non-resident alien
8% Black
6% Two or more races
0% American Indian/Alaska Native
0% Unknown
0% Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
Here's the nation as a whole [2]:
Non-Hispanic white - 63.4%
Hispanic and Latino (of any race) - 15.3%
Black or African American - 13.4%
Asian - 5.9%
Native Americans and Alaska Natives - 1.3%
Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders - 0.2%
Two or more races - 2.7%
FWIW- I'm not saying Yale doesn't have acceptance problems but the identification of the problem made in the release above is probably... fucking bullshit.
[1] - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?130794-Yale-University https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?130794-Yale-Universi...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...
- iaw 6y agoI think for 20 years there was a clear cut formula to get accepted to the Ivies that was an open little secret for affluent people. That formula has stopped working largely because too many people are using it. To me this is an effort by people who are angry that they can not game the system anymore due to the sheer volume of people that are trying to the exact same way. So they're targeting the people that weren't gaming the system (African Americans by and large) and saying "why are they getting in when I didn't and I did XYZ?" even though the school never said "Do XYZ and you get in."