Hispanic Admit Rate

Colleges and Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>Does anyone know how many hispanics applied to Brown and how many got in?</p>

<p>Any information will be useful.
Thank you</p>

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<p>From the people I know here, it doesn’t seem like there’s much advantage to being hispanic and applying. Statistically, I’m likely wrong. But maybe that makes it a 15-20% admit rate rather than the 12% of yesteryear. And as I live here, I’m probably a biased source.</p>

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<p>Not true.</p>

<p>I don’t know that I’ve seen a breakdown of Hispanic applicants that shows the acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>Interesting link, and it shows my guesstimate of 15-20% was probably right, as the Black admissions rate was about 22% in 2008.
[The</a> State of Black Student Freshman Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.jbhe.com/features/61_enrollments.html]The”>The State of Black Student Freshman Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities)</p>

<p>As in 2008 the actual admit rate was 13%, your chance of acceptance would be about 70% higher if you were black. For hispanics, the number is likely smaller (though I’m not positive, especially as Providence is not a heavily hispanic city, and there might not be as much exposure in the South American, Caribbean, or Mexican communities). But suppose it was the same as the boost for being black: that means that, in 2010, with a 9% general admit rate, you could expect a 15.3% admit rate for hispanics (as there’s about a 70% boost). This means the 2010 admit rate for URMs should roughly be the same as the general admit rate for 2005 (provided my postulate, that all URMs roughly follow the statistics true for blacks. Which I know isn’t likely to be totally true, but it was the data I had at hand).</p>

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<p>Providence isn’t heavily Hispanic?</p>

<p>“Hispanics represent over half (55%) of all students in the city’s school system while comprising only 36%[46] of Providence’s population.[44][47]”</p>

<p>quote from wikipedia on Prov.</p>

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<p>Eh, sorry again. Guess I’m making unwarranted assumptions based on my perceptions (i.e. coming form the Southwest, and only having worked with one public school here). But overall I can’t imagine the Hispanic admit rate to be much better than other URMs, so I can’t imagine the admit rate for Hispanics this year would be much over 16%. But again, I could very well be wrong. Just making unfounded leaps of conclusion.</p>