<p>is there a breakdown of what percentage of HS graduates are a given race applying to college?</p>
<p>Colleges themselves probably gather this data to see if they need to pursue certain subgroups. I think the US Dept of Education also asks this of schools. Maybe look at schools’ “Common Data Sets”. It might be a statistic in that template.</p>
<p>Google this for each school you have in mind. </p>
<p>Research paper due?</p>
<p>no, internet argument elsewhere about the recent discrimination buzz</p>
<p>It would be difficult to determine the number of applications because of multiple applications by the same person. But this table does show college enrollment figures [Fast</a> Facts](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=98]Fast”>Fast Facts: Enrollment (98))</p>
<p>The percentage of college students (all schools) of a given race should be a pretty reasonable proxy for the percentage of college applicants (all schools) of that race. Most people who apply to college get in somewhere; no doubt there’s some fall-off (more applying than admitted, and more admitted than attending), but there’s no particular reason to think those fall-off rates would be higher for one race than another.</p>