[299] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
gender/race breakdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy_B,MajMoola,MechWarrior,etc._)
Sat Apr 28 19:33:01 2001
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 19:32:54 EDT
From: "Jimmy_B,MajMoola,MechWarrior,etc._Chien-ta Wu" <jimmbswu@MIT.EDU>
For the past two, three years, I thought I had observed an interesting
phenomenon: That there are more Asian females on campus than Asian males. People
thought I was crazy. But thanx to Steve's help, the webpage showing the below
table is at
http://web.mit.edu/ir/pop/students/enrollment.html
As you can see, for undergraduate females, Asian-descent is the largest ethnic
group. And there are more Asian females than males. I will not explore its
implications, but I just thought that is is an interesting fact.
I wonder if other area colleges have a similar distribution on that point?
So that was that,
Jimmy
Fall Term 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Undergraduate Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women
International 228 119 217 117 225 119 250 105 254 106
Black 186 100 179 97 173 96 182 88 168 100
Native 21 12 36 18 47 17 61 26 55 24
American
Asian 592 661 573 661 559 677 515 672 522 644
Hispanic 294 133 303 130 318 122 332 119 353 118
White 1263 668 1160 624 1054 603 924 555 898 554
Unknown 96 56 166 100 220 142 268 203 253 209
Total 2680 1749 2634 1747 2596 1776 2532 1768 2503 1755
Total UG 4429 4381 4372 4300 4258
