3,856
Students
10.9%
First-generation college students
89.6%
In the top tenth of their graduating class
Notes: Including those who identified as multi-race or Hispanic, the percentage of African-African students in the incoming class is 9.2. “Other” includes 7 native Hawaiian or other Pacific students and 3 American Indian or Alaska native students.
1397
Average SAT score
Source: UVA’s Office of Institutional Assessment and Studies.
Note: Numbers are preliminary, as of July 9, 2018.
Comments (15)
Anthony Guy Lopez on 08/13/2018
Thanks for providing the data. Hopefully the transparency will lead to productive changes—my concern are the low numbers of Native American (N.A.) students. Since 1995, the average number of N.A. students is 4.8. Since 2009 the number has declined to 3.7. What the data doesn’t show is that the number of N.A. students offered admission is at a rate far less than the general population. It is my view that the Dean of Students and President Sullivan has decided that it is not a priority to admit Native American students, that UVA is sadly comfortable with these low numbers. The effect of having such low numbers is that the Native American community never reaches a critical number of students that allows it to flourish and grow. If UVA offered admissions to N.A. students at the same rate as it does to the general population, the number of Native American students attending would double. If it offered admission at the rate that it does to other student groups that are viewed as priorities, then the number of students admitted per year may even be three of four times the current numbers. It is my view that UVA cannot ever become the great American University that it could be without inclusion of Native American students, professors, nations, and degree programs. Well, unless we define greatness in America as that which has successfully excluded the original Americans.
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Glenn R. Showalter on 08/11/2018
Two Native American students for the class of 2022. It’s interesting to read your comments probably affiliated with your historical origin. While i would not want to attend a place like Howard University, wonder if i would get accepted? Personally i have found the real discrimination at the University has to do with age and gray hair and with being conservative, which has some connotation to age and gray hair.
UVA honors (most of the time) and is about Old, Tradition, Founders, Traditional, Aged, Original. and wonderful new discoveries of great magnitude and potential. Native Americans are the oldest peoples of our country. Two of them will be in the class of 2022. Hope they are traditional s who honor they ancestry culture.
Are y’all demanding greater than 6% of 3,856 for your group or that which you pitch for? Y’all should be asking what happened to those other two (3rd & 4th) and the other 38 or the 42 N.A. students, and you might find some answers. They were probably all well qualified but all of the attention around here goes to one minority race. We had nothing to do with, nor was anyone around here a part of slavery in the early USA. nor any other civilization on Earth, all of which had slavery, including Africa.
This alum would like to see a significant increase in students, staff, and faculty, who honor their ancestry traditions, and help other Native American peoples.
ps…These N.A. peoples were the first to suffer in this new land upon arrival of Christopher Columbus second voyage in 1493 with an armada of 17 ships of army.
Anthony Guy Lopez on 08/09/2018
Only 3 Native American or Alaska Native students? Out of a total of 3856 students? What is that? .12% !! This is probably the worst showing among any of our peer universities regarding Native American admissions.
Did you know that last year 42 American Indians applied, 4 were offered admission and only 2 agreed to attend? This year only 3 agreed to attend! It has been like this for decades! When will UVA actually embrace the knowledge, participation, and contributions of the original peoples of this land where the USA is located?
Charles Berkeley on 08/09/2018
The University should admit those students who are qualified to meet demands of degree programs offered to them, their admittance should be based on their ability to succeed not on their race, ethnic background,political leanings or gender,to use anything less than their academic ability is not doing anyone any favors and leads to the possibility that they will not be successful at The University.The University of Virginia was not founded as a social experiment but as an institution of learning,if you come to her for that reason you should leave your political and social agendas at the doorstep as you enter.
Bobbi Greenan on 08/09/2018
Each youth needs to map out their destiny with education and career goals that fit their individual needs and find their best crew to do that with. For youth that align with the elite academics of UVA they’ll need to get pass the 30% admission rate, similar to William & Mary.
For youth that align with a more representative and diverse community for their academic pursuits, George Mason and VCU may fit them well. The 80% acceptance rate eases that transition.
https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/most-diverse-colleges/s/virginia/?type=public&type=private
With two of my youth finding their “fit” and their “crew” in the Uni that meets their needs (UVA and GMU), I am content to know their “success” is not based solely on their academic achievements but with the people they connect with and the life path they lay out and follow for themselves.
Linda Roberts on 08/09/2018
So what the above people are saying is so racist - instead of being “color blind and just looking at the qualifications - they are saying “look at what the ethnicity of the applicant is and then admit them if they arn’t all white” I thought that if you work hard and make good grades and are active in high school then you will survive the rigorous curriculum that UVA has. If you don’t meet those qualification you are just setting up that student for failure. But I guess it is all about “feelings” and you “feel bad the stats are low” Well how bad will they feel when they fail at UVA ? And those that are throwing around the word Nazis - I think you need to go back and re-learn history.
Alice Radler Casey on 08/08/2018
No matter how fancy you get with the numbers—in my face still: 6% African American and 6% Hispanic, 2018. Not good.
Michael Sakowitz on 08/08/2018
When you consider African American enrollment at UVa, consider the other options available to that cohort. All of the top universities are competing for the best minority students. In many cases, I presume, those candidates are choosing between the likes of UVa, Harvard, and Yale. So it’s not as simple as just opening your doors wide.
Michael Sakowitz on 08/08/2018
I’ll just leave this here… It’s from virginia.edu, and dated November 3, 2017.
Current institutional data shows that the University has experienced a robust expansion in the breadth and depth of its cultural and socioeconomic diversity in recent years. Data for 2017 indicate that since 2012:
First-year minority student enrollment has increased by 38 percent;
African-American enrollment of first-year students has increased by 41.5 percent;
First-generation student enrollment is up by 42 percent;
Enrollment of students with Pell Grant eligibility is estimated to be up 34.3 percent.
The number of enrolled first-year students from the U.S. who self-identify as African-American or as two or more races with one of those being African American has steadily increased in the last five years from 7.1 percent in 2012 to 9.1 percent in 2017. This increase follows successful efforts to encourage more applications by African-American students. The University received more than 2,271 applications from African-American students in 2017; that’s 600 more applications than in 2012. Of those applying, 33 percent were offered admission.
Byron S. Shenk on 08/08/2018
May I ask what percent of the students were African American and Hispanic from 2008-2016? What intelligent person would associate the low number of these Minorities enrolled with the Presidency of Mr. Trump? President Trump is not in any way connected with this great University.
Byron S. Shenk, EdD., 1990
Byron S. Shenk on 08/08/2018
May I ask what percent of the students were African American and Hispanic from 2008-2016? What intelligent person would associate the low number of these Minorities enrolled with the Presidency of Mr. Trump? President Trump is not in any way connected with this great University.
Byron S. Shenk, EdD., 1990
Alice Radler Casey on 08/08/2018
Only 6% African American and 6% Hispanic—totally unacceptable and this coming to my inbox on the one year anniversary of “Charlottesville”!
Jeanne Murphy Murck on 08/08/2018
6.4% African American ! I guess that reflects Trump’s effect on our society’s ability to have a maintain diversity goals. The case against “White supremacy” is certainly a topic that needs to be discussed on grounds.
Jessica Church on 08/08/2018
It’s time for the University to take a hard look at itself, its culture, and its current community. Nobody should be satisfied with 6% African American students. That is abysmal. Maybe start by taking a stronger stand against Nazis and White Supremacy.
Victor Bernstein on 08/08/2018
Only 6% African Americans, wow! Maybe the University has to do something to make itself more attractive to this group who make up a much larger percentage of the general population of Virginia, and even of the US in general.