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<p>That figure includes the 6-10% of white hispanic students, who would identify as hispanic on college apps, in addition to any mixed background students who might identify as white on a census, but something else on an application. Taking also from that the fact that the majority of unreported race students will be white (by motivation in addition to sheer volume of applications), you end up with whites being represented only slightly less than their makeup in the population.</p>
<p>Example: Northwestern
reported: 56% white
Of Hispanic: 3% (Estimate Out of 7% total, probably on low side)
Unreported: 5% (Estimate out of 7%)</p>
<p>Total: 64%, Not much lower than Census considering Asians make up 18% of student body.</p>