<p>mojojojo, None of my statements have referenced minority status. The issue at UVA with the elimination of ED is access to the University for lower income groups. Granted, a large portion of these are of color, but certainly not all. There are poor white people as well. The fact is that UVA does a pretty good job with recruitment of African Americans (9% of the student body) and a great job in graduating these students (ranked #1 for the fourth straight year among public universities with an 87% graduation rate for African American students). Asian students represent 14% of the students and Hispanic students make up 5%. Both of these are higher than the in-state % in Virginia. The issue is not race, the issue is low income students and their participation/access to admissions at a level equal to that of wealthier applicants. </p>
<p>Re ranking goals, UVA would like to be considered among the top 15 and is taking steps with projects like the South Lawn project to address some of our weaknesses. As for your reference to UC-Berkeley, your post implies that you believe UCB to be a superior school. You should know that we don’t.</p>
<p>Prouddad: To my knowledge, there is not separate data published for ED admits. My instinct, like yours, is that there are some marginal admits in that group, but I also believe that the very large majority are students who would have been admitted under RD. (Quick aside: My relative was deferred ED and got in RD so it is not all one way.) My point is why put them all (we’re talking about 1000 students or 1/3 of the entering class) into play when they are ready to signal their commitment to UVA. Create a process that stimulates more low income applications, but don’t lose another group of students in the process.</p>