Admissions Criteria Stifles Ethnic Diversity
During the last decade the admissions criteria to enroll in CUNY schools has considerably gone up. Though this means that students with better credentials have been enrolled in CUNY schools it also means that students whose academic records don’t make the cut are being rejected. The majority of these rejected students come from African-American and Hispanic backgrounds. Not to say that their grades were that much worse but the resources and backgrounds that they come from just did not provide the means for them to get the grades to get accepted into the CUNY system. This is deeply troubling and a solution to this problem needs to come about quickly.
This chart depicts the demographic distribution at Baruch College.