<p>i am looking at the university of Georgia and there is only 7% of black people there but if you look at the population of black in Georgia they make about 30% of the population so what is going on, also uga being a flagship school should at least represent that population of the state.</p>
<p>leave you comments here and tell me what you think about that</p>
<p>well let me bump this</p>
<p>What percentage of UGA applicants are African-American?</p>
<p>I know that when S, H and I drove through Athens, we stopped there for lunch and then decided to check out the university. The prevalence of obvious signs of the confederacy in the town and the campus caused us to walk just a few yards into the campus and then leave. The university and town gave us the creeps. UF and FSU and their environments felt very different.</p>
<p>Since Atlanta has several black colleges – including top ones like Morehouse and Spelman – and there also are other black colleges in Georgia, I imagine many black Georgians choose those colleges or a place like Emory, which is in a vibrant city, not out in the middle of nowhere like UGA.</p>
<p>This probably has socio-economic reasons to it as well…</p>
<p>I think seven percent is great! You won’t find many schools discussed on college confidential like that.</p>
<p>7% actually isn’t a bad number at all, especially considering the number of HBCUs in Georgia. On the contrary, NYU and Boston University clock in at barely half that, and so on and so forth.</p>
<p>anyone else</p>
<p>maybe there are rules against practicing affirmative action?</p>
<p>Probably socio-economic reasons.</p>
<p>The most important things for admission are your grades and rigor of curriculum. University of Georgia admits the most competitive applicants regardless of high school, zip code, county or state. There are no quotas assigned to any characteristics. From this site: [University</a> of Georgia :: Undergraduate Admissions :: Top Ten Uga Admissions Urban Legends](<a href=“http://www.admissions.uga.edu/article/top_ten_uga_admissions_urban_legends.html]University”>http://www.admissions.uga.edu/article/top_ten_uga_admissions_urban_legends.html)
Many of the students are from Atlanta, have taken many AP or IB course and find Athens to be the perfect college town. Rolling Stone rated Athens as number 1 among “campus scenes that rock” and Kiplinger’s has rated it a best value may times. It was recently named one of the hot schools by the Daily Beast.</p>
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<p>In short, maybe they admit students based on merit, not race.</p>
<p>^what he said.</p>
<p>When you consider that most blacks don’t go to college, most are poor, Georgia has a lot of HBCUs, and affirmative action isn’t to take qualified white students spots and give them to unqualified blacks (Chris Rock explains it as a tiebreaker). But let’s not talk about affirmative action. DougBetsy made a good point, if 7% of UGA applicants are black, then the school is doing nothing wrong.</p>