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MIT's first freshman class since affirmative-action ban is less diverse

25 pointsby donsupreme9 months ago

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mediaman9 months ago
There&#x27;s a couple observations about these numbers.<p>The first is that the numbers don&#x27;t add up to 100%, because students can select more than one race. For the class of 2028 they add up to close to 100%, but they add up to over 120% for the prior year. This suggests that there&#x27;s been significant changes in how many students select more than one race. It&#x27;s possible that without an incentive to select an under-represented race, that many fewer students did so.<p>Secondly, the percentage of white students didn&#x27;t change much. The portion of students identifying as Asian-descent went up quite a bit, while black&#x2F;hispanic declined; the rest of the difference appears to be due to the change in multi-race selection.<p>Overall, this does seem to suggest that the systems previously in place did not really affect white students much, but served to suppress Asian student representation in favor of other minority students.
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0xy9 months ago
Discrimination based on race has lowered, they mean?
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matrix879 months ago
good luck to the people who want it back, it&#x27;s an uphill battle from here. next up on the chopping block: hiring
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dadjoker9 months ago
So what?