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Terry's avatar

Blacks are 13.9% of the U.S.population, but they are a vanishingly small percentage of science and engineering students. MIT says black enrollees are down to 5% this year from 13% in previous years, because of the Supreme Court ruling that banned racial preferences.

In other words, black enrollment goes down when admissions are tied more strongly to academic excellence.

Elsewhere in the news, Asian enrollment at Harvard is up, because top scoring, hard working Asian students are no longer being openly discriminated against (it would be naive to say the discrimination has ended).

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GH's avatar
Sep 12Edited

I don't have a problem with any of it, except I dislike calling something it isn't - a 22% drop isn't modest.

Meanwhile, Asians dropped from 30% to 22% at Yale.....

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