Advantage to be a URM?

collegealum314
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:30:00 +0000

Which peer schools are 10% black?



From a Tech article on the demographics of the MIT’s 2011 class
http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N31/admissions.html



African Americans make up 9 percent of the class, comparable to the Class of 2010’s 8 percent but an increase from the 6 percent of the previous three classes. (See the tables on page 10 for additional statistics.)

The remaining Class of 2011 is 38 percent Caucasian, 26 percent Asian American, 7 percent Mexican American, 1 percent Native American, 2 percent Puerto Rican, and 3 percent other Hispanic. One percent is of other ethnic descent, 8 percent are international students whose ethnicity was not polled, and 5 percent did not respond.





With the international students (which aren’t polled for ethnicity,) this may come out to 10%.

I will add that a contributing factors to 1% Caltech AA number in that they may not want to go there.