Most of these kids will either drop out of school or enroll in some fluff college course like Women’s or LGBT studies.
Engineering is not going to be of interest to them.
My son graduated with his Chem E this spring from Purdue. His graduation session was all Engineering disciplines: Chemical, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical/Computer and Nuclear Engineering. I would guess there was a little less than a thousand kids getting those degrees in that session. Maybe a dozen were black, and of that dozen, half of them were not African-American, they were from Africa.
A few months later University President Mitch Daniels said there needs to be a push for more “diversity” in the Purdue Engineering schools. So there will be pressure to move minority students along whether they make the grade or not. And once they get the degree, they have a Golden Ticket. Every major corporation is also under pressure to “diversify” so they will get jobs, whether they are qualified or not.
They sure don’t need to diversify with more Asians, though. The roster of Electrical/Computer Engineering graduates read like a Shanghai phone book.
Can they solve Quadratic Equations?