Minorities Admission

hamiltonl87
Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:59:32 +0000

I think as a state school UVA has somewhat of an obligation to try to make sure its’ instate student population represents Virginia’s population. That said, Virginia is about 19% Black and the UVA class of 2008 was about 10% Black, so it would appear Blacks are still underrepresented. Hispanics are 5% of Virginia’s population and made up 5% of the class of 2008.

There are several data sets online showing Blacks offered admission at UVA in recent years had significantly lower SAT scores than Whites offered admission and Hispanics also had slightly lower scores.
I would definitely question the policy of having lower criteria for admitting Blacks, if many of the Blacks admitted struggled at UVA and dropped out. However, UVA has one of the highest graduation rates for Blacks and in that achievement, UVA is fulfilling one of its responsibilities as a state school.