I read the entire article and couldn’t find anything about the graduation rate of underserved minorities at MIT.
Funny that.
They don’t like to give those figures to the public, but:
“Nationwide, only 26 to 28 percent of black students graduate from college, a full six years after admission. At MIT, a representative of the Registrar’s Office refused to reveal the GPA of minority students, claiming that “it would be misleading”, but according to Dean Leo Osgood, required withdrawals in the six-year period from 1990 to 1995 were composed of between 33 and 55 percent minorities, who made up about 15 percent of the undergraduate student population.”
https://web.mit.edu/fnl/vol/103/emanuel.html
The data were pretty clear years ago at Berkeley where they were letting in unqualified minorities. Those kids were bright but not up to the competition at Berkeley. They struggled and the drop out rate was high. Those kids suffered and felt like losers. Had they gone to a less competitive school they would have thrived.
When Berkeley stopped the program and took only the top minorities the drop out rate when down.