Diversity concern at liberal arts schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some are better than others in terms of diversity.

Williams - 51% white; 12% Latino; 12% Asian, 5% Black (ouch)

Swarthmore - 40% white; 12% Latino; 16% Asian and 7% Black

Pomona - 35% white; 16% Latino; 15% Asian and 10% Black

Generaly the higher ranked and better endowed schools have more diversity

My DD does not have the stats to get into the above somewhat more diverse SLACs. The ones she can get into are around 75% white

Isn’t it kind of racist? I can imagine getting slammed if I said I don’t want to send my white child to an75% Asian school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s son wanted to attend a university, public or private, with fewer than 50% white students. His was not a long list.

Doesn’t it sound racist?? What if he said he wanted less than 50% Asian of black or whatever?? I mean, I understand if he wanted more than 1% of his race but this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will widen her social group and prevent her from making mostly Asian friends at college.

Why is this so important? I am not Asian but I don’t understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Part of the problem is that Tiger Moms view their kids applying to LACs as bottom fishing.

Nah, imagine if they started sending their kids there. Nowhere to hide for us normal parents lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Diversity is just a marketing gimmick in many SLACs. Students often still self-segregate on campus.

Perhaps, but you have to have a population to self-segregate into. That's OP's concern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apply to Ivys. They offer liberal arts education and have 20% - 25% Asians.

Play in the NBA. Be an astronaut. Run Apple. It’s easy!

[Anonymous]

Do you clowns realize what percentage of college age kids are white in this country? And Asian?
Answer:. White 54%. Asian 6%
The higher ranked SLACs have over-representative number of Asians The more elite schools can buy "diversity" with their prestige. Hence my bottom feeder comment, which was meant to shock. Furthermore, Asian don't tend to self-segregate as much as other groups. Don't worry. Your kid will be fine wherever they go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s son wanted to attend a university, public or private, with fewer than 50% white students. His was not a long list.

Doesn’t it sound racist?? What if he said he wanted less than 50% Asian of black or whatever?? I mean, I understand if he wanted more than 1% of his race but this?

No, it is about statistics. Since more than half of the college student population is white (~55%), when elite schools balance their populations disproportionate to the representation in the general pool, you end up with a lot of schools with an overrepresentation of the majority, which does not reflect the real population of higher educated Americans. Having a diversity of backgrounds is considered valuable in higher education, so schools that manage to create that are viewed by many to be better schools. The ones with 70%+ of one student population (almost always white statistically) are missing a feature that is valuable to many students. HBCUs are intentionally disproportional for historically valid reasons, as are women's colleges and some religious colleges. Students are choosing them for this reason. But outside of those specific categories, you might expect a student population that reflects the general college educated population, but that is sometimes geographically unlikely, and other times, skewed by the desirability and intentional diversification of elite colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD would like to look at liberal arts schools but I am concerned about the lack of diversity. Majority of these schools are 70-75% white with as low as 1-5% asians. Any input from asian parents who have kids at liberal arts schools with relatively less asian population please share your and your childs experience. Thanks

Why not Singapore or Australia?

Great programs in English, plenty of Asians.

[Anonymous]

LACs are a "white people thing" and I use the term somewhat self-deprecatingly. For whatever reason, most LACs have struggled to diversify. A lot of surely has to do with economics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you clowns realize what percentage of college age kids are white in this country? And Asian?
Answer:. White 54%. Asian 6%
The higher ranked SLACs have over-representative number of Asians The more elite schools can buy "diversity" with their prestige. Hence my bottom feeder comment, which was meant to shock. Furthermore, Asian don't tend to self-segregate as much as other groups. Don't worry. Your kid will be fine wherever they go.

Takes a clown to know a clown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some are better than others in terms of diversity.

Williams - 51% white; 12% Latino; 12% Asian, 5% Black (ouch)

Swarthmore - 40% white; 12% Latino; 16% Asian and 7% Black

Pomona - 35% white; 16% Latino; 15% Asian and 10% Black

Generaly the higher ranked and better endowed schools have more diversity

My DD does not have the stats to get into the above somewhat more diverse SLACs. The ones she can get into are around 75% white

At the end of the day, it's probably better for your DD. She (or you) won't be drowning in college debt, and she'll still get a good education wherever she goods to launch a professional career.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s son wanted to attend a university, public or private, with fewer than 50% white students. His was not a long list.

Doesn’t it sound racist?? What if he said he wanted less than 50% Asian of black or whatever?? I mean, I understand if he wanted more than 1% of his race but this?

No, it is about statistics. Since more than half of the college student population is white (~55%), when elite schools balance their populations disproportionate to the representation in the general pool, you end up with a lot of schools with an overrepresentation of the majority, which does not reflect the real population of higher educated Americans. Having a diversity of backgrounds is considered valuable in higher education, so schools that manage to create that are viewed by many to be better schools. The ones with 70%+ of one student population (almost always white statistically) are missing a feature that is valuable to many students. HBCUs are intentionally disproportional for historically valid reasons, as are women's colleges and some religious colleges. Students are choosing them for this reason. But outside of those specific categories, you might expect a student population that reflects the general college educated population, but that is sometimes geographically unlikely, and other times, skewed by the desirability and intentional diversification of elite colleges.

You ignore regional differences in demographics (which would affect state universities). You ignore economics and self-selection, which affects LACs.

Your post only smacks of entitlement and judgmental prejudice, not pragmatism. A larger university that is only 30% "minority" will have many more students of "color" than a small but demographically diverse LAC....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Part of the problem is that Tiger Moms view their kids applying to LACs as bottom fishing.

I am uncertain if this is true. I am certain it is unhelpful.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you clowns realize what percentage of college age kids are white in this country? And Asian?
Answer:. White 54%. Asian 6%
The higher ranked SLACs have over-representative number of Asians The more elite schools can buy "diversity" with their prestige. Hence my bottom feeder comment, which was meant to shock. Furthermore, Asian don't tend to self-segregate as much as other groups. Don't worry. Your kid will be fine wherever they go.

Oh, if it was meant to shock, then racism is fine. Who are you? DJT?