black vs white college acceptance rate

black students were accepted to 3.3% of selective colleges, while white students were accepted to 5.3%.

To be clear, this is not a phenomenon that’s confined to the Ivy League. The gap in acceptance rates is considerably wider at selective public universities like the University of California system and flagship state schools such as Rutgers and Penn State.

University officials have said that black applicants often have lower standardized test scores than white students. But standardized tests are not the most accurate indicator of academic performance — or even whether a student will make it through college — and it’s clear that something else is at work here.

African-American students are more likely to apply to college and more likely to enroll in selective institutions than they were even 10 years ago.

According to a report by the Pew Research Center, African-American students are more likely to apply to college and more likely to enroll in selective institutions than they were even 10 years ago. The same is true of Hispanic students. However, black students are still less likely than white students to attend college overall–there’s a significant gap between the two groups when it comes to enrollment rates. And when black students do go to college, they’re less likely than their white peers to earn a degree in four years–or at all.

scholars who study racial disparities in college admissions say that selective colleges need to be more transparent about their selection processes.

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It is harder for black students to get into a good school than white students

• Colleges are not transparent about their selection processes. Which means that it is hard for potential students to get information about what colleges are looking for, and how admissions officers make the decisions about who should go to their school.
• Colleges do not try hard enough to recruit black students. This is called a “lack of outreach.” The schools that seem to be doing the most outreach have more black students attending them.
• The cost of college makes it harder for black students to apply. Many black families earn less money than white families, which makes it harder for them to pay for college applications and other costs associated with applying to a school. As an example, many schools require applicants to submit their scores from tests like the SAT or ACT as part of their application process. These tests cost money, and most people need extra help in order to do well on them! Black students are less likely than white students to be able to afford this kind of test preparation, so they may end up getting lower scores than they could have gotten with help and then be rejected by schools that use those scores during admissions decisions.