Anyone who shares the popular (in some circles) belief that the student bodies at all California colleges and universities, including the very selective Berkeley and UCLA, should fairly closely resemble the racial and ethnic make-up of the state should take a close look at this new report by the Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy of the California State University system (HatTip to the Chronicle of Higher Education news blog).
Among the findings in the report (all for 2005-06):
Share of 8th Graders At Or Above “Proficient” in Math:
Asian (43%)
White (38%)
Hispanic (18%)
Black (16%)
Share Of 8th Graders At Or Above “Proficient” In Language Arts:
Asian (59%)
White (62%)
Hispanic (25%)
Black (27%)
Percentage Of 11th-12th Graders Enrolled In Advanced Math:
Asian (55%)
White (32%)
Hispanic (16%)
Black (15%)
Also relevant to admission to the selective campuses:
The percentage of high school seniors taking the SAT was 57% for Asian students, 33% for white students, 29% for black students and 21% for Latinos. The average total score was 1,063, 1,085, 869 and 899, respectively.
Or a similar finding: 414 of every 1,000 Asian high school seniors taking the SAT or ACT, 414 had a score of 1,000 or greater for the SAT or 21 or greater for the ACT. The comparable number for whites was 288; for Hispanics it was 79; and for blacks it was 94.
No one should be surprised that Asians are “overrepresented” among students in California colleges, especially the selective ones. It’s because they are “overrepresented” among the high achievers.
per the Chronicle link:
“Seven out of 10 Asian high-school graduates in California go directly to college, a rate that is far higher than that of any other racial group, according to the report. The proportion for black students is 49 percent; white students, 47 percent…”
So…the percentage of BLACK high school grads going to college is greater than the percentage of WHITE high school grads going to college, although the average white grad is WAY more likely to have taken the classes needed to go to college???? Unless most “Hispanics” are being put in the “white” category (and thereby depressing the overall “white” total), the discrimnation against white kids in California is far worse than I ever imagined, and white people should sue the state or move out of this filthy cespool.
Look at these stats and tell me that California’s college admissions officer’s aren’t anti-white filth:
Percent of students with SAT score at or over 1000 (or comparable ACT):
*NON-hispanic white: 28.8%
hispanic: 7.9%
black: 9.4%
Percent of HS grads completeing A-G core pre-college courses (pg. 7 in PDF report from link:)
non-hispanic white: 41%
hispanic 24%
black 25%
and yet….the % of high school grads from each group that are admitted to college each year (pg 11 from pdf link):
non-hispanic white: 47%
black: 49%
hispanic: 43%
Obviously, whites, as the most under-represented minority group (especially considering their average academic qualifications) in college, will continue to see their civil rights erode as the voting electorate will get more racist and non-white due to continuing immigration and “white flight” from the third-world garbage dump known as California. Once white people leave California, we will see a huge power struggle between the asians (who will replace whites as the victims of affirmative action) , and the Hispanics. The asians will have more money on average, but the Hispanics will have the advantage in population.
Poor and middle class white people are basically masochists, they are the most spineless, emasculated people in America. Almost every college (mostly run by rich white people whose family is immune to the effects of affirmative action) in America has a policy of minimizing white enrollment by a combination of
A)having minimum quotas for “underrepresented minorities” (i.e., blacks and Hispanics)….and…
B) at the same time NOT having minimum quotas for “overrepresented minorities” (e.g., asians).
So the people running our colleges DON’T consistently support using quotas OR support using qualifications to judge college applicants. They support the method used to MINIMIZE the number of white students. There’s an asian applicant? They then use qualificiations as the criteria. A black or Hispanic applicant? Then they use quotas instead.
If you think this is fair, ask yourself…what if colleges had a MAMIMUM quota for asian applicants, but no MINUMUM quotas for blacks and Hispanics? If you take the current race-based admissions policies, and just replace “asian” with “black/hispanic” and vice versa, that’s EXACTLY what you’d have. If a SINGLE college even considered doing this, every politician in the country, everyone in the media, and every phony “civil rights” group (La Raza, NAACP, etc) would come down on them like a ton of bricks immediately.
I am not surprised one bit at the California results since it mirrors the educational achievement here in northwest suburban Chicago.
Palatine District 15 is the largest primary and secondary school district in the state with 13,000 students enrolled. This district is located in a stable community and well funded by any standard, spending over $10,000 per student, yet the percentage of minority students falling below standards is significantly larger than the percentage of White and Asian students.
For example in school year 05-06, the latest year for which test results are available, you will find the following results; percentage of 8th Grade students below standards or on academic warning in Mathematics parsed by ethnicity, White 13%, Hispanic 62%, Black 55% and Asian 4%.
The other area of testing for which results are available is Reading and here we find similar results, White 8%, Hispanic 30%, Black 44 % and Asian 8 %.
Even more disappointing is the fact that historical trends do not show any statistically significant improvement over the last four years. And worse yet when all of Cook County schools are surveyed, excluding City of Chicago schools, we see the same over all picture, and not a pretty one at that.
As long as there is this gap in academic performance, John will have a “job” writing his blog. Until those who believe in preferences based on race look in the mirror and honestly acknowledge the root cause of the disparity in hiring and higher education the problem won’t go away. And by the way, the solution is not money. By and large, Cook County schools, again exclusive of City of Chicago school, are very well funded and stable institutions yet they are unable to achieve across the board educational excellence for all of our citizens.
For those readers who live in Illinois, you can find detailed test results at web site maintained by Northern Illinois University. The url is: http://iirc.niu.edu/default.html. I would urge you to go there and do your own research.
Some day this country may come to terms with the fact that Asians do well in school and blacks do not.