Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago
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Re: Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago
#2So just tell them to get better final exams marks?
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#3Could any share of this be due to fringe far-left groups targeting minorities for their "fuck everything about the system and STEM education is bad" recruitment campaigns?
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#4Could any share of this be due to fringe far-left groups targeting minorities for their "fuck everything about the system and STEM education is bad" recruitment campaigns?
I'm not aware of such efforts, beyond twititer snark, and I'm pretty far left. But assuming it exists: No, the vast majority of Blacks and Latinos are part of the political mainstream.
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#5Could any share of this be due to fringe far-left groups targeting minorities for their "fuck everything about the system and STEM education is bad" recruitment campaigns?
Almost certainly not, since they are by definition fringe groups, and most people aren't on the fringe.
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#6Isn't the median IQ of blacks and Hispanics below that of the general population? I don't understand why this would be unexpected.
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#7This sounds like an issue with the public elementary and secondary education systems more than anything else -- affirmative action can only do so much for those that qualify, but if eligibility does not increase in lock step with population then there are some basic problems that need to be addressed.
Perhaps college endowment funds[1] should invest in supporting elementary and secondary education systems rather than private equity.
How many freshmen are children of first-generation immigrants? The percentage likely pales in comparison to children of second-generation immigrants as climbing the financial ladder is (generally speaking) a basic requirement to raising children than can attend college as well as having the capability to fund their attendance.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...
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#8No doubt this is because of the ever increasing cost of going to college in the USA. This favors kids with parents that can pay for some part it, and black and hispanic households tend to have less money than other etnic groups.
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#9Amazing to see what a steep drop of whites each of those charts show, in many cases their share more than halving in as little as 35 years. And despite such a dramatic decrease, it still doesn't keep pace with the demographic changes.
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#10From the article:
> The share of black freshmen at elite schools is virtually unchanged since 1980. Black students are just 6 percent of freshmen but 15 percent of college-age Americans
Leading to an "underrepresentedness" figure of -9 (or -10 on the graph in the article, which is probably due to rounding).
But that's a stupid way of calculating underrepresentedness. E.g. if a group has 8 % of the population but none go to university they would be underrepresented by -8, less than blacks but clearly 8->0 is a much larger diparity than 15->6.