'Segregation Forever'? The Continued Underrepresentation of Latino Undergraduates at the Nation's 122 Most Selective Private Colleges and Universities

In 2020, EdTrust released a report titled, "Segregation Forever?," which explored the continued underrepresentation of Black and Latino first-time, full-time undergraduates at the nation's 101 most selective public four-year colleges and universities in 2000 and 2017. The analysis revealed significant underrepresentation of Black and Latino students at public colleges and universities in states matching their demographics; nearly half of these institutions received failing grades in the analysis for disproportionately low enrollment of Latino students. As a follow-up, the authors explored enrollment for these same student groups at the nation's 122 most selective private four-year colleges and universities. The authors looked at the years 2000 and 2020 to see how Latino enrollment at these institutions matched the demographics of Latino residents in the states from which first-time students came. While the share of Latino student enrollment grew at almost all these institutions between 2000 and 2020, enrollment did not represent the demographics of the states from which students came. Population parity is not the ultimate goal; however, it is the most reliable benchmark for comparison based on available data at the time of the analysis. This report specifically analyzes Latino student enrollment, and a similar analysis for Black students can be found in this report. Access scores, ranging from 0-100, measure how well each institution's Latino enrollment reflects the racial and ethnic demographics of the states from which first-time undergraduate students migrated. Letter grades were applied based on an institution's access score. Scores of 90 or higher received A's. Scores in the 80s, 70s and 60s received B's, C's, and D's, respectively. And scores below 60 received F's.