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There's a couple observations about these numbers. The first is that the numbers don't add up to 100%, because students can select more than one race. For the
by mediaman 2y ago
There's a couple observations about these numbers.
The first is that the numbers don't add up to 100%, because students can select more than one race. For the class of 2028 they add up to close to 100%, but they add up to over 120% for the prior year. This suggests that there's been significant changes in how many students select more than one race. It's possible that without an incentive to select an under-represented race, that many fewer students did so.
Secondly, the percentage of white students didn't change much. The portion of students identifying as Asian-descent went up quite a bit, while black/hispanic declined; the rest of the difference appears to be due to the change in multi-race selection.
Overall, this does seem to suggest that the systems previously in place did not really affect white students much, but served to suppress Asian student representation in favor of other minority students.
- hilux 2y agoSuch a good observation! Even as a very left-leaning person, this is the problem I see with the current implementation of "DEI": the white majority, including so-called progressives, never intend to give up their hold on all forms of influence, in every sphere of life. But they come up with a variety of schemes designed to take away representation from Asians, especially those Asians deemed "over-represented." And don't even get me started on Elizabeth Warren, Rachel Dolezal, Elizabeth Hoover, etc.