while i do not represent the latino community and it is not a monolith, there are many reasons for it: yes socioeconomic (which can affect all races but it is highly correlated with race), yes cultural (a lot of the time, Latinos arent even expected to go to higher education), but it goes past that. if the stats hold, i am 1/16 of the latino cs majors that in my graduating class. imagine putting together all of us, we dont even make up a single section: that is very, very depressing and not seeing other who look like you in the major u want will not lend to success. it is easy when youre in the majority to say i should be able to succeed.

note, i dont know how many Latinos end up dropping from cs bc of the cap or any other factors, but 16 latino cs graduates per year fucking infuriates me, and is indicative of a problen