ACCESS TO UNIVERSITY The gross enrollment rate is the number of students enrolled at university as a percentage of the population in the theoretical correct age group (18 to 24 years old). Despite Affirmative Actions in university  In 2008, still 92.3% of young Afrodescendants (18-24 yo) were out of university  In that year, the relative disparity between rates for Whites and Afrodescendants was 167%