<p>Despite the progress Blacks have made in securing admissions to top law and medical schools, in comparison, Blacks have made little headway in business school enrollment -- and this is the 21st century!</p>
<p>This is hardly news. The numbers would have been more depressing had not been the effort of The Consortium (<a href="http://www.cgsm.org/default.asp)%5B/url%5D">http://www.cgsm.org/default.asp)</a>. I strongly recommend any qualified student to participate their annual orientation program. </p>
<p>I afraid the stats for women are slightly better but still less than encouraging. If you were a female student considering an MBA, check out the programs organized by Fort</p>
<p>Affirmative action is how significant process has been made in top law and medical schools. Could it just be that business schools are much less inclined to practice affirmative action?</p>
<p>"Progress" in what sense? Progress in promoting the idea that true diversity exists in people that look different?</p>
<p>Ignore that post, I don't want to start any arguments over the pros/cons of affirmative action or anything like that.</p>
<p>I am not certain that affirmative action will help significantly. The real issue for one school that I am familar with isn't the quality but rather the quantity of URM applicants. Put it differently, the challenges are getting URM population to see the values of a MBA degree, understand the b-school application process and ultimately pursue it. So, to see real changes, I think b-schools must step up their outreach effort considerably at pre-college level - i.e. planting that MBA seed as early as possible.</p>