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"Stanford Computer Science majors are Asian (46.4%), followed by White (38%), Hispanic (9.5%) and Black (6.1%)."

High school: Nationwide, black students graduated at a rate of 69 percent; Hispanics graduated at 73 percent; whites graduated at a rate of 86 percent.

13.2% of the population is black, 17.1% Latino, 63% white.

If White = (38%) then you would expect black to be: 38% / (.63 * .86) * (13.2 * .69) = 6.39%. So if anything Standford is about right for black people, and massively over represents Asians.

It seems like HS graduation rates are the real issue everything else just flows from that. But, income and graduation rates are linked so it's a self perpetuating cycle.

    > So if anything Standford [sic] is about right for black
    > people, and massively over represents Asians.

That assumes only local applications though. And even then ignores demographic prejudice in where to apply (which is probably more slight).

I would guess Asian students are a majority among international applicants to Stanford. If we then looked at high school 'graduation' worldwide as the baseline, that's probably an underrepresentation.

I am ignoring where people apply, just adjusting for % of population and % of high school graduates. There are a lot of ways to play with the numbers but that seemed like a good first approximation.

Also, international students are 8.70% of undergrads at Stanford, so they can't really change the stats that much.

Asians is a huge group. Would be nice to see a break down between Chinese, Indians and the rest of asia

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