Posted on 08/22/2024 6:48:02 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Enrollment for Black and Latino students dropped at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first class formed after the Supreme Court found race-conscience admissions in colleges unconstitutional.
The university’s admissions department on Wednesday released its first-year class profile, showing a sharp drop in its Black student population. About 5% of MIT’s incoming class of 2028 is Black, a significant drop from its 13% average in recent years. Latino students make up 11% of the class of 2028, compared to a 15% average in recent years. Overall, 1,102 students make up the incoming class.
Stu Schmill, MIT’s dean of admissions, attributed the drop to the high court’s 2023 decision to end consideration of race in the admissions process.
“We expected that this would result in fewer students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups enrolling at MIT,” Schmill said of the ruling. “That’s what has happened.”
The white and Asian American student populations have increased, while all other groups have declined — some even down to zero, the profile shows.
In recent years, Black, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander students have accounted for 25% of MIT’s enrolling undergraduate classes, the university said. That number has declined to about 16% for the incoming class of 2028. The profile marks the first time a selective university has released its freshman class statistics since the ruling.
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The education system is failing for black students.
How many Black and Latino students wasted their time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ?
School choice or some other competitive solution is the only way out for Blacks, yet they vote with Dems who are 100% against choice, amazing.
The democrats want black students to do nothing and get everything for free
Are they saying that Black people are stupid?
Perhaps this will both
1. save the colleges and
2. put pressure on some of the miserably- failing high schools to start teaching a their students a whole lot better
More race division from the MSM.
Good news...
Black culture is failing for blacks as a whole and this includes their education.
It will take a lot longer for the damage to black students and graduates to go away then it will take for the damage to the reputation of the school.
There are no shortcuts to training for good teachers and for step by step learning and accountability for all the teachers and all the students.
The educational system needs to be truly color blind.
As it should be. Asians and Whites should not be penalized to correct supposed historic wrongs.
The remaining blacks will know that they earned it by merit, not DEI. They’ll be the model for young blacks, rather than LeBron James bouncing a ball over a court.
Yes, but you know what? Any black graduate from MIT in the future will get top dollars offers. Hiring companies will know they’re getting diversity for their own staff AND a high quality student.
You are correct that many struggle at such places, so these top schools turn themselves inside-out and upside-down to attract the small cohort of top black students that can pass their programs.
My daughter's school had a black boy, an excellent student, and son of two Nigerian doctors (so was neither poor nor typical American black) who rec'd admission offers from every Ivy League to which he applied (which was eight).
The asian and white kids who were also at that level were happy if they rec'd one.
Now that 5% will know they actually earned their place at MIT.
Helping underqualified people get degrees in difficult fields of study ultimately means that they will be underqualified professionals with fancy but useless degrees.
These schools are still trying to put lipstick on pigs...and it just won't work.
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