Minorities Admission

jonniboi21
Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:32:15 +0000

im a hispanic student and got admitted to uva.
i got an email like a week ago from a student representing the latino student union, and in the email the student mentioned that the latino student union works in part with the office of admissions.
Now, i dont know whether or not that means that they in part give preferences to some of the hispanics students who applied, but i just thought that it was interesting that the latino student union works with the office of admissions.
Once again, feel free to correct me if anyone out there knows anything, i really dont know.
Also, at my school there were a number of caucasion students who were denied. They were really bitter because a number of minority applicants were accepted who most definitely had lower stats than them, but once again, im only speaking in terms of stats. It is very likely that those minority students had a better overall application, but it is a fact that minorities have in the past lower average SAT/GPAs than caucasion students.

Luckily, i didnt rely on my race to get me into uva. :)