Only ~50 black men make up UCLA Freshmen class of 5700
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UCLA Has More NCAA Championships Than Black Male Freshmen
The black students at University of California, Los Angeles, sent a strong message about diversity at their school. Namely, the fact that there isn't much when it comes to African-American males, a troubling fact for one of the state's most elite institutions.
A group of students, led by Sy Stokes, posted a video voicing their concerns about the number of black students on campus, and their message is hard to ignore. Stokes, a third-year Afro-American studies student who identifies as black, Cherokee and Chinese, recites a spoken word poem in the video, citing blaring statistics about the university's diversity issue.
According to the school's enrollment statistics, African-Americans make up 3.8 percent of the student population. In the video, Stokes points out that black males make up 3.3 percent of the male student population, and that 65 percent of those black males are undergraduate athletes. Of the incoming men in the freshmen class, only 1.9 percent of them were black.
In an interview with the Daily Bruin, Stokes said he almost dropped out of UCLA during his first year because he felt isolated and uncomfortable. Although he eventually found his niche in the minority community, he said he wanted to raise awareness about the school's lack of diversity before the university's application deadline on Nov. 30.
“We had to do something to put our issues on the map,” Stokes said.
In an email statement to the school paper, Janina Montero, vice chancellor of student affairs, said administrators acknowledge the need for more diversity and are attempting to work within the state's admission parameters.
“We certainly recognize that the low numbers of African Americans and other underrepresented students on campus does lead to a sense of isolation and invisibility,” Montero said in her email statement. “It is difficult to eliminate this painful imbalance without considering race in the admissions process.”
The state of California voted down affirmative action in 1996 and passed Proposition 209, which banned state schools from considering race, gender, ethnicity or national origins in their admissions processes. Black student enrollment has severely decreased since that provision and critics are saying that has to change.
The students' video adds to the ongoing affirmative action debate both inside and outside of the state, raising awareness about diversity at institutions around the country. Stokes said he feels responsible for spreading the word about the unknown challenges of being a minority student at UCLA and the ongoing lack of diversity on campus.
"Being the cousin of Arthur Ashe, I feel as though it is my responsibility to uphold the strong voices of the Black Bruin community," he said. This school has experienced unacceptable instances of injustice recently, and many people are not aware of what is happening at this university."
I personally don't find it too unusual since my high school of about 1,000 had maybe 5 blacks, and I'm from the same state.
Idk, but it's extremely hard to get into that school. The valedictorian of our school didnt get get accepted, but my cousin who was like #5 did. She paid it dust and went to UC Santa Barbra instead.
I personally don't find it too unusual since my high school of about 1,000 had maybe 5 blacks, and I'm from the same state.
Idk, but it's extremely hard to get into that school. The valedictorian of our school didnt get get accepted, but my cousin who was like #5 did. She paid it dust and went to UC Santa Barbra instead.
Usually Asians are the ones who get accepted.
wait what? The valedictorian? but it's a state school
wait what? The valedictorian? but it's a state school
Oh my. UCs are terribly difficult to get into, especially UC Berkley and UCLA. The average GPA of a student that get accepted is like a 4.13, and they usually only allow 1 person from each high school to join the school every year.
You also have to make sure you are an interesting person that will benifit the school.
I'm iffy on the argument about affirmative action ,but this is literally sad for UCLA considering that they pride themselves on diversity when in reality the majority of people who attend the school (no offense) are whites and Asians.
Oh my. UCs are terribly difficult to get into, especially UC Berkley and UCLA. The average GPA of a student that get accepted is like a 4.13, and they usually only allow 1 person from each high school to join the school every year.
You also have to make sure you are an interesting person that will benifit the school.
I'm iffy on the argument about affirmative action ,but this is literally sad for UCLA considering that they pride themselves on diversity when in reality the majority of people who attend the school (no offense) are whites and Asians.
They really do try to bring in diversity, but it's really not fair for a more common raced person to not get accepted even though they have better stats than those of the less common race.
I'm also iffy on affirmative action. Perhaps it should stay now and be taken away in the future? The point is we want to head to a future where people are not judged based on how you can categorize them but judged on their credentials. Diversity is very important but people should also not be just let in because of their race/sexuality/ other stuff
I found this interesting argument against affirmative action (not the typical stuff about fair/unfair vs history of biases, etc)
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The single biggest problem in this system -- a problem documented by a vast and growing array of research -- is the tendency of large preferences to boomerang and harm their intended beneficiaries. Large preferences often place students in environments where they can neither learn nor compete effectively -- even though these same students would thrive had they gone to less competitive but still quite good schools.
We refer to this problem as "mismatch," a word that largely explains why, even though blacks are more likely to enter college than are whites with similar backgrounds, they will usually get much lower grades, rank toward the bottom of the class, and far more often drop out. Because of mismatch, racial preference policies often stigmatize minorities, reinforce pernicious stereotypes, and undermine the self-confidence of beneficiaries, rather than creating the diverse racial utopias so often advertised in college campus brochures.
They really do try to bring in diversity, but it's really not fair for a more common raced person to not get accepted even though they have better stats than those of the less common race.
But considering the vast destruction of character, education, and leadership of the black community that this country's government approved, Affirmative Action should be required, especially considering the fact that this country would never have been the Economic power house it is/was without the free slave labor.
Whenever people talk about AA they always talk about race, but why does it seem as if no one brings up the fact that AA has benefited white females more than any other group of people?
It's not as if minorities get into these schools simply for being so, they definitely have to work hard too.
Whenever people talk about AA they always talk about race, but why does it seem as if no one brings up the fact that AA has benefited white females more than any other group of people?
Because a lot of those benefits took place decades ago. Since then, white females have surpassed white males in GPAs and SAT scores, as well as general admission to the best colleges/universities so AA really doesn't apply to them anymore.
The only people for which AA still really applies are African Americans, Latinos, Asians (negatively) and Native Americans.
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from the article i posted in the comments section:
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At the University of Texas, whose racial preference programs come before the Supreme Court for oral argument on October 10, the typical black student receiving a race preference placed at the 52nd percentile of the SAT; the typical white was at the 89th percentile. In other words, Texas is putting blacks who score at the middle of the college-aspiring population in the midst of highly competitive students. This is the sort of academic gap where mismatch flourishes. And, of course, mismatch does not occur merely with racial preferences; it shows up with large preferences of all types.
The valedictorian? 
