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    22 days ago

    More than 40% of the US population identifies as a race other than white, according to 2023 census data.

    White students make up 37% of the new class, compared with 38% last year, while the percentage of Asian American students rose to 47% from 40%.

    Seems like with or without affirmative action, white students are underrepresented at MIT. 60% of the population (minus those who didn’t report?) vs 37-38% at the school. Or could there be a discrepancy about how white as a race vs Hispanic as an ethnicity is reported in the two different stats?

    Anyway, white supremacy seems to have little to do with the issue. It’s the Asian American proportion that went up and the black, Hispanic, and Pacific Islander proportions that went down.