"Nearly one in six, or 15 percent, of students that Harvard University offered admission to this spring were African-American. But step onto Harvard’s campus, and the student body looks far less diverse.
In fact, according to the most recent federal data available, just 8 percent of Harvard’s undergraduates are black and just over 9 percent of the incoming freshmen last year were black.
So what happens between admissions and the first day of classes?" …
Is it supposed to be shocking that Harvard is not every student’s first choice?
Even CC’s own Quad Brothers didn’t pick Harvard. The top black students are courted by a lot of schools and each student can only attend one school.
Still, according to the article, H has a 75% yield of its black admits. Not too shabby.
A possible explanation for such big discrepancy is that the students who mark only “African American” on application may not identify themselves as black on the federal surveys.
And the opposite may be true for Asian Americans who may have under-reported their race/ethnicity on their college application.