@DadTwoGirls -
The top relatively large universities that I have checked (I will admit that I have only checked the top 5 in the country, but someone else posted data on more like the top 15 or so) have reduced the number of white students to less than 50% of all students. A few have reduced the number of white students that they will accept to approximately 40%. The last data that I saw from one of the top universities had white students reduced to 36%. Given that white people make up somewhere around about 62% of the US population, arbitrarily limiting 62% of the US population to only 40% of the slots in top universities does not count as “equality of access”.
Whites make up about 54 percent of the 0-18 age group that will be feeding into four year colleges over the next decade, so the 62 percent figure is on the high side.
Here are the percent of white kids at various top 25 “national” private colleges:
Chicago: 49.9%
Schools with more than 50 percent white enrollment are not listed above. The data is from www.collegedata.com .