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I'm interested in seeing the racial breakdown here for intro to computer science enrollment, because I would imagine that that is the reason Berkeley is the exc
by malandrew 13y ago
I'm interested in seeing the racial breakdown here for intro to computer science enrollment, because I would imagine that that is the reason Berkeley is the exception. Something like 40% of the student population is asian [0], and IIRC, in computer science only two races are disproportionately represented per capita, caucasians and asians. For this reason I think Berkeley CS enrollment hardly counts as a data point indicative of a larger trend in CS enrollment.
FWIW, before a flamewar starts, this observation is not to be construed as bigotry, but simply descriptivist.
[0] http://opa.berkeley.edu/statistics/enrollmentdata.html http://opa.berkeley.edu/statistics/enrollmentdata.html
(I found it interesting that the Berkeley enrollment statistics lump all latinos/hispanics into figure, but break out the individual percentages for each asian subgroup.