I understand, even though I don't necessarily agree with it, the diversity issue but it is so skewed.
There aren't alot of schools that release the details of how many applicants and enrollees they have. Most schools release student profiles only showing breakdown of percentage of students based on age, race, gender, and grades but they do not show the number of applicants and enrollees based on race. The only school I have found, thus far, is East Carolina University which has data from their class of 2015 to the class of 2021 and here is the breakdown of all 7 classes combined
Race: Applicants:Enrollees = Percentage
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Caucasian: 1718:251 =
14.61%
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African American: 323/60 =
18.58%
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Hispanic: 132/18 =
13.64%
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Asian: 564:31 =
5.50%
School of Dental Medicine | Enrolled Students | Class Profiles
So if you look at the data over a 7 year period, the acceptance rate between Caucasian, African-American, and Hispanic doesn't vary quite that much. But then the Asian acceptance rate is ridiculous; if diversity is the key, shouldn't the acceptance rates be fairly similar which gives everyone somewhat of an equal chance to get in?
In those 7 classes, there wasn't a single year where the Asian dental student acceptance rate was higher than 8.00%.
The highest acceptance rate for AA, His and Caucasian, respectively, over the 7 classes were: 26.47%, 33.33%, and 19.31%.
Also my own personal data from talking exactly 148 students who have been accepted, it's just as alarming alarming. From the 148 who were accepted (38 from SDN and and 110 from various Dental FB groups), the average DAT AA was 24.2 with the lowest being 21 and the highest being 30. I know in the grand scheme of things, 148 students is still a small sample size but still telling none the less.