Affirmative Action at UVA (and related acceptance rates)

jags86
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:00:00 +0000

when you send in you’re picture with your application, they probably would have known. For some reason, while it isn’t exactly right or moral, I think UVa asks for that picture just so they can at least superficially confirm whatever you mark down your race is.

Also, I don’t think 1 or 2% points either way makes a big difference, especially since there are so many fewer asian and hispanic applicants. I’m sure its statistically insignificant as only a handful of applicants could shift the % points up or down. I wouldn’t worry that as an asian you would have a harder time or that as an hispanic you have an easier time.

Also, the edge hispanics get is mislead in the article. Because there are so many fewer hispanic applicants, I doubt that those comparisons on the SAT chart can be that substantial a find. I believe I read somewhere that only about 500 or so hispanic people even apply. Even if hispanics are placed in an entirely different group of applicants, they’re still taken at about the same rate…they’re just compared to each other rather than the entire group. And since we’ve established in about 97,348 of these threads that UVa doesn’t favor SATs that much, I find that the SAT charts are pretty insignificant.

Overall, it seems UVa favoritism seems to only significantly affect black students.