<p>Black People make up roughly 12.5% of the US population and with the exception of a few schools the Black Population is less than 4%. Do you see something wrong with that, where other URM's (Latin's Asians are growing at much faster rates) </p>
<p>Berkeley was telling me about the struggle for pulling African Americans Because ^^^^^THIS IS FOR SYBBIE^^^^^ those with great grades and even decent grades go to the IVY LEAGUE leaving other great and competitive schools to pull from an even smaller group of African Americans. Berkeley reacieved lots of apps from Blacks but those that could get in on grades and no URM hook don't want to go to Berkeley when they got accepted to Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Harvard etc.. Do you understand what i'm trying to say. In effect all African americans benifit because now I can apply to Berkeley and they know the 4.0's they accepted aren't going to come so they accept me because they know i don't have that Harcard option.
-->yes i know UC don't have affirmative action thats why this conversation was particularly interesting</p>
<p>"I don't quite understand this statement. Are you saying that you are in the top 10% of african americans over all or at your school?"</p>
<p>Yea top 10% of African Americans Yes nationwide and my school. Which is a feeder school.(sad aint it, but you have to remember that the majority of black people don't atend your school (generalization) most live in areas like new Orlean, LA, NY, in bad public school system, i only know mine the LA, where SAT's are a joke and so is school in general. Believe it, even though schools are accepting more and getting more applications does not mean that grades have risen over the last 3 years its more of an awareness among the black community that they can attend top schools also. I have friends with low stats acceptred to schools that they should have never even thought of. But this was all good info.</p>
<p>I'm not getting my hopes up to high Sybbie which seems to be your focus, iknow my grades aren't great but all i'm saying is i have options.</p>