Define diversity. Do you mean race, do you mean a certain race? Are you talking about economic diversity? Geographic? |
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What is "certain race" diversity? Also this shuffles the same 4 or 5 LACs no matter which one you apply. |
If you care about economic diversity, about a third of students are eligible for pell grants. Which of your 4 or 5 has that many pell grant recipients? |
No elite school mirrors the economic diversity 1:1 of America. Not even any of the top 100 colleges and university do that. Anyway, the most economically diverse LACs are Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, CMC, and Pomona. Looks like a ton of swapping to me. |
Most colleges outside of the top colleges are non competitive. You're asking for elite schools that accept everybody... |
OP said LAC not SLAC |
The SLAC's are still economically, racially, and geographically most diverse... |
OP stated diversity, not elite diversity. There are lots of schools outside of the top 100. US News lists 30 LACs with pell rates between 30 and 35%. |
Geographic diversity is an elite school thing. Only colleges that offer a ton of money can get students from all the US states and various countries. |
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/williams-college that doesn't look very economically diverse to me |
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almost all of the elite ones (top 5) are fairly diverse. yes students who are white or Asian will be the predominant race, but they’re not PWIs anymore.
There’s a good amount of class diversity, my DD is at Wellesley and we are UMC, but getting a large amount of aid. Her friend is solidly MC and gets a massive amount of aid. It’s hard to know the ins and outs of these schools without talking to a kid/family attending. |
No one mentioned Williams... |
Someone mentioned Wellesley, almost as twice as many students from the top 1% as bottom 20% https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/wellesley-college Amherst, over 4 times as many kids from the top 1% as bottom 20 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/amherst-college |
I do like that you conveniently ignore the part of this data that shows Wellesley as 2nd for its share of students in the bottom 5th. Pretty significant stat to ignore. Not every college is the early rendition of Eton College and only houses low income students-in fact, that is the OPPOSITE of economic diversity. |