@Cue7 Yes, I forgot to mention that. The percentage of Asian students has increased markedly. In 2004 there were 656/4513 (about 14.4%). In 2014 the figures were 973/5674 (just over 17%).
Asians are lumped together with Pacific Islanders, a URM, which complicates things. However, I don’t believe the number of Pacific Islanders is great enough to significantly affect these numbers.
()Most of the caveats from my previous post apply to these numbers as well.
I believe this percentage has risen further since 2014, and is one of the highest among top schools (the CA publics, where affirmative action is banned by law, are one exception). I attribute this trend (and a fairly low share of AA/Latinx students) partly to the university’s efforts to rise in the rankings. Admitting more kids with high scores is one way to do so quickly, and by taking only AA/Latinx students with high scores (and filling the extra seats this leaves with high-scoring white/Asian applicants - who, unlike high-scoring URMs, aren’t in short supply) UChicago may have bumped the average test score up. IIRC, our SAT midrange is second only to Caltech’s.
It’s also possible more high-scoring URMs have been admitted to HYPS and turned UChicago down. I would need data on cross-admits to say for sure. Most likely, both these factors have had an effect.