Where to Find Detailed Admission Stats?

Applying to College
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<p>Hello all. I simply wanted to know where I could find detailed admission stats, as in, the number of Asians that applied to a school and got in, number of Hispanics that applied to a school and got in, number of native american that applied to school and got in etc. Thanks! :)</p>

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<p>Google “common data set” for each school you are interested in attending. There will be a breakdown of SAT/ACT scores, GPA’s, ethnicity etc…</p>

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<p>^^ The common data set presents data for a cohort of students, but doesn’t present data for the overall applicant pool. I’m not aware of any college which publishes the kinds of stats the OP is looking for. So while a college may say that 17% of their admitted class are Asian, you never know how many Asians applied, and what the acceptance rate is for that group of students.</p>

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<p>I was going to say, that sort of data is pretty explosive and they don’t reveal it willingly.</p>

<p>Try reading this:
<a href=“Statistics Indicate an Ivy League Asian Quota - NYTimes.com”>http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/19/fears-of-an-asian-quota-in-the-ivy-league/statistics-indicate-an-ivy-league-asian-quota&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The most interesting lines come at the end:

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<p>They aren’t keeping secret for anything other than less than honorable reasons, organizations never do.</p>

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<p>Some data of the type the OP is looking for is published by JBHE for African American students: <a href=“Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities : The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education”>http://www.jbhe.com/2013/11/jbhe-annual-survey-black-first-year-students-at-nations-leading-research-universities/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>No school gives the breakdown of admissions stats by race-- the lawsuits would start so fast, your head would spin…</p>

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<p>Ahh so you guys are simply saying that normally stats like those are pretty “rare” and not easily found?</p>

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<p>I’d go so far as to say they are not even kept. You can’t be subpoenaed or have documents requested for discovery for something that doesn’t exist.</p>

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<p>They exist, or it can be compiled. Otherwise, how could they hit the “Asian quota” so closely every year? It’s not a coincidence that they get close to the same percentage every year. They know exactly what they are aiming for and how close they are to hitting it.</p>

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<p>I’m not saying they have the slightest difficulty of hitting their soft quotas. What I’m saying is that they conveniently don’t have to categorize those whom they reject…</p>

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<p>All the schools collect the data, but this is the only report I have encountered of a school boasting about their deliberate racial preferences and voluntarily disclosing the data to support their claim of preferences.</p>

<p><a href=“UMass Amherst: Commission on Campus Diversity”>http://www.umass.edu/campusdiversity/challenge2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>There was one report from UMich contain data up to 2006 or 2008. They are not typically announced unless the school did a study on it for some reason.</p>

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<p>Here is the report from UMich in 2006:
<a href=“http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/548/UM_UGRAD_final.pdf”>http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/548/UM_UGRAD_final.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>@achiever900 You might want to look at a universities Fact Book for the information you seek. I have have checked many schools and only a few have provided the information you seek. There is an obvious downside for the universities to publish this information. If the acceptance rate of a minority is substantially lower than their white applicants, it could signal discrimination in the admission process.</p>

<p>BTW you can also extrapolate the information from a college’s website. For instance, Colgate University has the information you request, but it is in small chunks on different areas of its website.</p>

<p>Also, the few universities that have published the data on its Fact Book, generally put password protection so that the public does not see the data.</p>

<p>Here is a dated but relevant article on Diversity and Discrimination on Asian Americans in Colleges.
<a href=“http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20080708_1987874doversityordiscriminationasianamericansincollegejohnhbunzel.pdf”>http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20080708_1987874doversityordiscriminationasianamericansincollegejohnhbunzel.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks guys!</p>