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Jun 30, 2016
10:01:48am
Jasbo Walk-on
Lies, damned lies, and statistics...
There is so much wrong with your simplistic analysis. First, you don't cite a source. Collegefactual.com, which reports diversity for all U.S. universities, reports Provo as 16.8% minority versus the 12.5% that your numbers imply. Of those identified by race at Idaho, 25% are non-white, and Hawaii is 65.4% non-white. The Church is hardly underrepresented with minorities related to its North American and Pacific Island membership. (The BYU system is made up of 98% church members.)

You use the Utah population of Pacific Islanders as the denominator for your condemnation but the 35,000 includes Hawaiians, so the BYU total is 378. This is equal to 1% of their Utah population. By deduction, of the 29672 students enrolled in Provo in 2014, 25969 you presume to be white. This works out to be .9% of the 2.8 million Utah population. Your thesis that local Pacific Islanders aren't getting a fair shake is bogus, not to mention that the BYU white students are, in majority, from other states.

Let's use the Pacific Island global populations versus their representation at BYU universities and they are over-represented. BYU Hawaii goes to the islands to try to persuade students to come on the IWork program which supports about 700 students and includes scholarship and part-time work at the school or PCC that covers all other costs. Most of the Tongans go to New Zealand because their universities give them an even more generous package. The PCC has struggled to get enough to come to even meet their needs for workers and performers.

You have bogus data and then throw out what doesn't agree with your thesis.
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