Just for comparison purposes:
In 2015-16, the University of Michigan had 1,216 black undergraduates, including 298 newly enrolled black freshmen. This compares to a total of 16,311 black students who graduated from Michigan high schools in 2015.
In 2015-16, UC Berkeley had 583 black undergraduates, including 100 newly enrolled black freshmen. This compares to a total of 25,727 black students who graduated from California high schools in 2015.
Neither school is doing a good job of recruiting and retaining black students, but strictly by the numbers, it appears UC Berkeley is doing considerably worse. Black freshmen at Michigan in 2015-16 represented only 1.8% of the state’s 2015 black high school graduates, but black freshmen at UC Berkeley’s represented only 0.4% of California’s 2015 black high school graduates.
Not surprisingly given each state’s demographics, UC Berkeley enrolls many more Hispanic students, 3,875 Hispanic undergraduates and 706 newly enrolled Hispanic freshmen in 2015-16, compared to 1,300 Hispanic undergraduates and 344 newly enrolled Hispanic freshmen at Michigan that same year. But UC Berkeley draws on a much larger pool of 138,524 Hispanic students who graduated from California high schools in 2015, compared to only 4,100 Hispanic students who graduated from Michigan high schools that same year. Michigan’s newly enrolled Hispanic freshmen represented 8.4% of the state’s 2015 Hispanic high school graduates, compared to UC Berkeley’s 0.9%.
The two schools have similar total undergraduate enrollments: 27,496 at UC Berkeley in 2015-16, compared to 28,312 at Michigan.
UC Berkeley might boast of a higher percentage of Pell grant recipients, but when it comes to serving URMs, UC Berkeley lags well behind Michigan. Both schools have a long way to go in that regard.