<p>Mojojojo69, you might want to go right to the source for information. I know everyone's trying to help, but the Outreach Office staff members are the best people to answer questions like this.
[QUOTE] If I have a question about the application process, who do I contact?
You may contact any member of the Outreach Office. [email=<a href="mailto:deangregory@virginia.edu">deangregory@virginia.edu</a>]Valerie H. Gregory is the Director. [email=<a href="mailto:reh5r@virginia.edu">reh5r@virginia.edu</a>]Ryan Hargraves and [email=<a href="mailto:vmc8a@virginia.edu">vmc8a@virginia.edu</a>]Veronica Cooper are Admission Counselors. [email=<a href="mailto:lcc8h@virginia.edu">lcc8h@virginia.edu</a>]Liana Carroll is the Administrative Assistant.</p>
<p>Is there a current student I can talk to if I have a question?
The Black Student Admission Council and Latino Student Admission Council, are an integral component of the minority recruitment process. Among other things, these student groups are responsible for answering questions about the African American or Black student experience and Hispanic and Latino student experience at U.Va. Send an email to the [email=<a href="mailto:outreachadmission@virginia.edu">outreachadmission@virginia.edu</a>]Outreach Office with your question using the subject line: "Ask a Student" and you will receive a response from a current U.Va. student.
<p>Both of you have to understand that AA is not just about giving minorities a chance to attend college, but also a chance for regular caucasian students who do not have the opportunity to travel, the chance to meet someone of a different culture, which, in essence, prepares the person to a realistic world, where society is not dominated by just caucasians.</p>
<p>Do you seriously think schools appreciate diversity for diversity's sake? You might want to read about something called the Civil Rights Movement, and learn a little about something called the media. If this was not the case, UVA would not be running around with 12% Asians and 5-10% Jews and instead we'd actually have something close to an ethnically balanced university (which we don't at all)</p>
<p>okay, so on collegeboard it says that the hispanic population is 4%. i found it shocking when VA's hispanic pop was so low, but i guess that's because i'm from fairfax county. </p>
<p>i found this interesting...</p>
<p>"Statewide figures probably tell the story best. Though the total percentage of Hispanics in Virginia grew by only 2 percentage points-from 3 percent in 1990 to 5 percent in 2000-this represents a gain of over 889,000 people, and an increase of 106% in the total Hispanic population. The increase of slightly over 169,000 Hispanic people represents 19% of the state's total gain of 889,318 people.</p>
<p>In general, people of Hispanic origin are concentrated in counties rather than cities. But before jumping to the conclusion that "counties" means "rural," it might be well to notice that almost a third of the state's total Hispanic population lives in Fairfax County, hardly a rural area. No other single locality comes close to this figure, and even among MSAs, only the Norfolk and Richmond metro areas have more than 1% of the total. Virtually every locality in Virginia reported some growth in the Hispanic population."</p>
<p>So the hispanic population is clearly growing, but the population at universities is not. Does this make sense?</p>
<p>Yea, it does. Take closer look at where most of the growth is coming from and the recent history of that growth. Many, many hispanics in VA are recent immigrants from latin america who work blue collar jobs. Furthermore, many are illegal. Regardless of race, people of that status do not go to college in large numbers.</p>
<p>Yes, essentially those who benefit from the affirmative action in this case would the upper class and some middle class Hispanics who are capitalizing on the fact that lower class Hispanics are moving in. There is no fair representation by simply increasing the number of Hispanics in the University, and it is often an excuse used by less than average Hispanic applicants to get in. </p>
<p>Like I've already said, we're not going for total ethnic representation. Where would that extra percentage of blacks or hispanics come from? It would probably have to come from taking out Asians and Jews. UVA wants to claim it's diverse, not that it is an ethnically balanced university and then proceed to lose multiple ranking spots by taking out from its two most well-performing groups.</p>
<p>Hmmm,
If Vermont is 97% white, then shouldn't Middlebury be 97% white?
If New Hampshire is 96% white, what should Dartmouth do?
Hopefully coleges are't trying to racially diversify to approximate the state's minority populations. Hopefully they are trying to enroll classes with racial, demographic, political and academic (different academic interests, not abilities) diversity to increase the quality of the college experience for all</p>
<p>Public schools should have some balance to the populations since they receive state funding. All the while private schools (ie the schools you just used) are viable on alumni donations can work on their diversity anything which way they please.</p>
<p>thats not true, look @ the university of michigan, who, according to the 2000 census, has an 80% white population in the state of michigan, yet the university itself does not have 80% whites; instead they have 62% white and the rest are hispanic, black and asian. My point is, regardless of whether or not you are being state funded (as you can see by Umich), the universities themselves are competing against one another and should provide as much diversity as they please. </p>
<p>University of Michigan is very much statefunded. Over 1/4th of their operating budget I believe comes from the state, whereas this year and in the past few years UVA has been 'funded by the state' so much that it was only 8 percent of the total budget (next year it'll rise to 15% or something).</p>
<p>Uh, UCLA and Berkeley are also heavily state funded. And I don't see how ORM Asians even factor into this, especially considering that both schools are about 3% black (who are almost all athletes, basically)</p>