<p>Some of them are kind of crazy. Like if you look at the 2011 liberal arts college one</p>
<p>Amherst with a 15.1% acceptance rate overall had a 39.1% black acceptance rate. </p>
<p>here's the top overall colleges one: JBHE</a> Annual Survey: Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities : The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education</p>
<p>MIT doesn't publish their black admit rates anymore but when they did I remember it was pretty high also.</p>
<p>What I find crazy is that the percentage of African Americans at the majority of these schools is less than 10%…</p>
<p>Its not that crazy. Black people make up 12% of the US and in the US less than half (47%) of all black males even graduate high school and 56% of black females graduate high school. That means theoretically black people only make up about six percent of the applicant pool (assuming all high school graduates attend college which we know isn’t true and assuming that an equal percentage of all races eligible to apply to top tier schools apply).</p>
<p>So if black people make up such a small percentage in general, and these schools are looking to have a black presence in their student body, why is their acceptance rate so crazy?</p>
<p>Does it not seem a little crazy that one group that is generally less qualified composes 14.3% of the acceptances while making up only 5.5% of the applicant pool and has a 39.1% admissions rate while the rest of the applicants have about a 13.6% admissions rate?</p>
<p>No, it doesn’t seem crazy at all. Like I said, because they make up such a small percentage of applicants, and their presence is desired, their acceptance rate isn’t surprising. Nevertheless, no admitted student isn’t qualified. And one’s qualification, at these schools particularly, isn’t determined solely by their SAT score or other numerical factors.</p>
<p>How many asian students are going to get into a school like Amherst with a 1900 SAT? If your qualification isn’t determined by numerical factors what determines your qualification? By chance being born to a mother with a darker skin tone? How does that make you any more “qualified”? I’d agree that no admitted student completely unqualified per se but there are those that are more qualified and they are getting skipped over for the sake of “diversity”. Is it not racist and insulting that they admit that standards have to be lowered for them to accept black people? It perpetuates the stereotype that black people aren’t smart enough to be accepted on the basis of their merit and it is unfair to applicants that have worked harder.</p>
<p>I don’t agree, but I’m not going to get into one of the countless AA disputes on this site. Everything that you and I have said and will say has been said before.</p>