Posted on 08/22/2024 1:05:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
The high court’s ruling struck down affirmative action programs at the University of North Carolina and Harvard, with far-reaching consequences for other public universities. The court ruled that the schools’ affirmative action programs violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and are therefore unlawful.
Although the ruling bars schools from using race as a factor in admissions, prospective students can still share their racial or ethnic backgrounds through application materials, like essays and personal statements,
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Are anti-Semitic students up?
The fallacy about this drop is that they make it out like blacks aren’t going to college. The blacks who don’t go to MIT will go to a decent second-tier school. The blacks who used to go to second-tier schools will go to lower tier schools. So blacks still will get an education, but it will be at a school where they have a better chance at success and don’t feel lost being among a bunch of brilliant students.
What they don’t want to admit was that 8% were really unqualified to enroll.
So what? What matters is “were the most qualified students admitted?” Did average GPAs/Test scores of students increase or decrease?
Who gives a damn about the ethnic background of the students. You might as well ask how many were tall vs how many were short or how many had fully detached earlobes vs fully attached earlobes. Its irrelevant.
Unqualified, at a very high level. They had an IQ of 150 instead of 175, and got a 3 on AP calculus instead of a 5.
I remember reading a biography of Bill Gates, where he found the math program at Harvard very tough. Yes, he could do it, but he had to work really hard.
I'd be willing to bet the 16% level is a lot closer to those groups' graduation levels than 25%. If that's true, then the other 9% should never have been admitted, IMO.
Exactly right
It Should be who merits it
Period
“Are anti-Semitic students up?”
They should be as they are VERY SMART people. After all, how many of us could have worked up a crowd to demand Genocide 2.0, or even support Harris/Biden?
“So blacks still will get an education, but it will be at a school where they have a better chance at success and don’t feel lost being among a bunch of brilliant students.”
And, hopefully, in another generation or two, their STIGMA of only going to the top schools due to skin color will end, as people will know that they again earned their way in.
So this is what happens when you have a level playing field? Who knew!
I had a boss once who was very dark skinned and graduated from MIT
I can guarantee you that he was not DEI or affirmative action in any way.
Unlike Kamala he was not part .Indian either.
What does Ben Carson have to says about this?
Let hem attend DEI instructional education facilities to enhance their grades. Let them kids who will do well make America great again, and those who can’t become DNC employees.
When you look a athletic competitions, especially Olympics or professional sports, blacks dominate and I don’t hear whites calling for equity. When the blacks can’t dominate or even match whites and Asians in technical or other fields then they say equity must take place.
Malcolm X nailed it here....
Malcolm X on black celebrities being puppets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeXqnHMpDjg
An IQ of 150 is pretty high. Way fewer than 1 percent of the population. Overqualified for MENSA.
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