<p>“The 2000 Census data report that 75% of the U.S. is white, so apparently whites are the underrepresented race in many if not most of the top universities.”</p>
<p>You have to look at the population data for college age; I bet it is less white than the population as a whole. And each region’s demographics of course affects college apps in that region, except for the top schools probably, which draw nationwide. </p>
<p>The top schools do better I think because they can afford the best aid to attract the best and the brightest of the minority kids.</p>