Percentage of BIPOCs at your child’s top pick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:America is about the only place in the world where diversity in college is a consideration. The overwhelming majority of the top academic institutions in other countries are racially homogenous and yet they are still able to learn despite the lack of classmates with different colored skin. it's astounding.

What an absurd and patently false assertion.

DP.

China would like a word.

/Europe ex England has joined the conversation.

Once you leave british commonwealth countries and America, the top universities are extremely racially homogenous but there is still a lot of diversity.
And if it weren't for asians, even the british commonwealth countries would be pretty homogenous

There is more economic diversity because the admissions are largely test based without much weight given to legacy, country club sports, and expensive extra-curriculars.

[Anonymous]

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Everyone still uses it.

Hate the term BIPOC, think it’s up there with LatinX in being something white people use to be performatively liberal and distracts from an otherwise important concept - which is going to school or work with people from different races, background, and classes.

Too bad your opinion and feelings are invalid. But we get it -- "hate" is something you do.

DP

You're pretty stupid aren't you?

He is literally saying diversity is important, performative virtue signalling is not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think most students are looking for economic diversity, rather than pure racial diversity. The rich GDS and Sidwell black students aren't bringing anything special to campus. Students value a diversity of experience rather than color, which is increasingly meaningless among 18 year olds in 2025.

I think as we have more multiracial kids, it will become less and less acceptable to categorize people on the basis of race.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most students are looking for economic diversity, rather than pure racial diversity. The rich GDS and Sidwell black students aren't bringing anything special to campus. Students value a diversity of experience rather than color, which is increasingly meaningless among 18 year olds in 2025.

I think as we have more multiracial kids, it will become less and less acceptable to categorize people on the basis of race.

Just FYI, for all the voices shitposting about how worthless diversity is and why you don’t (and no one should) care about it, just take a long look at this post that is unironically espousing principles of eugenics. Crazy, crazy work. You Obama haters should really be thanking him because he gave you cover to say that race doesnt matter anymore and you can bring back those good ole notions of equity from the 50s and 60s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most students are looking for economic diversity, rather than pure racial diversity. The rich GDS and Sidwell black students aren't bringing anything special to campus. Students value a diversity of experience rather than color, which is increasingly meaningless among 18 year olds in 2025.

I think as we have more multiracial kids, it will become less and less acceptable to categorize people on the basis of race.

Just FYI, for all the voices shitposting about how worthless diversity is and why you don’t (and no one should) care about it, just take a long look at this post that is unironically espousing principles of eugenics. Crazy, crazy work. You Obama haters should really be thanking him because he gave you cover to say that race doesnt matter anymore and you can bring back those good ole notions of equity from the 50s and 60s.

DP. Pretty sure you completely misunderstood that post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most students are looking for economic diversity, rather than pure racial diversity. The rich GDS and Sidwell black students aren't bringing anything special to campus. Students value a diversity of experience rather than color, which is increasingly meaningless among 18 year olds in 2025.

I think as we have more multiracial kids, it will become less and less acceptable to categorize people on the basis of race.

Just FYI, for all the voices shitposting about how worthless diversity is and why you don’t (and no one should) care about it, just take a long look at this post that is unironically espousing principles of eugenics. Crazy, crazy work. You Obama haters should really be thanking him because he gave you cover to say that race doesnt matter anymore and you can bring back those good ole notions of equity from the 50s and 60s.

DP. Pretty sure you completely misunderstood that post.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not wise to view any group as one uniform monolith. Even within groups and within families, there are different social and economic experiences. I’m Indian-American and there’s a difference between the first wave that came during the 60’s and 70’s (doctors and engineers), the second wave who came during the 80’s (business people and factory workers) and then the more recent “tech immigrant wave”. Some subgroups are more privileged than others.

Differentiation is true and present within any group; for example: many caucasians are poor and reliant on SNAP benefits, as has recently been highlighted. But that doesn’t render privilege false.

But the same measure, Indian / Asian privilege must also be acknowledged here, and the most obvious demonstration of that fact is in current admissions statistics. Another validating data point is household income. Again, anecdotal evidence does not invalidate the reality of Asian privilege in America.

But it certainly makes applying the assumption of privilege to any individual a fool’s errand at best and racist at worst.

+1 applicants need to be evaluated as individuals

No one is being evaluated as as an individual when a school receives tens of thousands of applications.

This also sounds like holistic admissions which is unpopular with a lot of people here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most students are looking for economic diversity, rather than pure racial diversity. The rich GDS and Sidwell black students aren't bringing anything special to campus. Students value a diversity of experience rather than color, which is increasingly meaningless among 18 year olds in 2025.

I think as we have more multiracial kids, it will become less and less acceptable to categorize people on the basis of race.

Just FYI, for all the voices shitposting about how worthless diversity is and why you don’t (and no one should) care about it, just take a long look at this post that is unironically espousing principles of eugenics. Crazy, crazy work. You Obama haters should really be thanking him because he gave you cover to say that race doesnt matter anymore and you can bring back those good ole notions of equity from the 50s and 60s.

Of course race matters.

Whites just want to keep institutions...white, the mediocre ( but rich) applicants be damned.

Why else would Trump grant asylum to white South Africans?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most students are looking for economic diversity, rather than pure racial diversity. The rich GDS and Sidwell black students aren't bringing anything special to campus. Students value a diversity of experience rather than color, which is increasingly meaningless among 18 year olds in 2025.

I think as we have more multiracial kids, it will become less and less acceptable to categorize people on the basis of race.

Spoken like someone who really doesn’t understand how words can land differently with people outside their community, especially when they really don’t have significant ties outside their community. Don’t worry I’ve heard I’m overreacting, or misunderstood, or it was just a joke plenty of times before.

Just FYI, for all the voices shitposting about how worthless diversity is and why you don’t (and no one should) care about it, just take a long look at this post that is unironically espousing principles of eugenics. Crazy, crazy work. You Obama haters should really be thanking him because he gave you cover to say that race doesnt matter anymore and you can bring back those good ole notions of equity from the 50s and 60s.

DP. Pretty sure you completely misunderstood that post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid noticed. It didn’t change his choice, but coming from a diverse public school he notices that his private school is very white.

I don’t get the vitriol in the thread. If it’s not a consideration for your kid, maybe move along. I’m sure what anyone gains from being aggressive around the idea that it might actually be important to someone other than you.

Thank you for humanizing diversity and making it a worthwhile factor for college students to consider. Just like gender, or weather, or rankings or any other factor that a student may decide could be pertinent to their college decision.

It’s so interesting to hear its dismissiveness from others.

I went to a very non diverse college and then a very diverse grad school. The vibes and environment are completely different. Think small town USA versus big metropolis.

After experiencing the latter, I could never do that undergrad experience again. So if students are getting that global diverse view in high school, I completely understand “shopping” for that in college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most students are looking for economic diversity, rather than pure racial diversity. The rich GDS and Sidwell black students aren't bringing anything special to campus. Students value a diversity of experience rather than color, which is increasingly meaningless among 18 year olds in 2025.

I think as we have more multiracial kids, it will become less and less acceptable to categorize people on the basis of race.

Just FYI, for all the voices shitposting about how worthless diversity is and why you don’t (and no one should) care about it, just take a long look at this post that is unironically espousing principles of eugenics. Crazy, crazy work. You Obama haters should really be thanking him because he gave you cover to say that race doesnt matter anymore and you can bring back those good ole notions of equity from the 50s and 60s.

DP. Pretty sure you completely misunderstood that post.

+1

+2
The chip on that PP's shoulder can be seen from space. "Eugenics"?? Good grief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most students are looking for economic diversity, rather than pure racial diversity. The rich GDS and Sidwell black students aren't bringing anything special to campus. Students value a diversity of experience rather than color, which is increasingly meaningless among 18 year olds in 2025.

I think as we have more multiracial kids, it will become less and less acceptable to categorize people on the basis of race.

Just FYI, for all the voices shitposting about how worthless diversity is and why you don’t (and no one should) care about it, just take a long look at this post that is unironically espousing principles of eugenics. Crazy, crazy work. You Obama haters should really be thanking him because he gave you cover to say that race doesnt matter anymore and you can bring back those good ole notions of equity from the 50s and 60s.

DP. Pretty sure you completely misunderstood that post.

+1

+2
The chip on that PP's shoulder can be seen from space. "Eugenics"?? Good grief.

What chip?

[Anonymous]

Red area PP here - my daughter goes to a reasonably diverse Catholic high school and had never heard the term BIPOC (diversity, yes, and of course that is important). I’m not sure I’m the one in a bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Red area PP here - my daughter goes to a reasonably diverse Catholic high school and had never heard the term BIPOC (diversity, yes, and of course that is important). I’m not sure I’m the one in a bubble.

BIPOC is meant to be progressive jargon for “not white,” but it is a pretty useless term because a white student in Europe is BIPOC (indigenous) but would cease to be BIPOC if they moved to China.

Meanwhile a Chinese student in China is indigenous, but if they moved to Canada they would no longer be indigenous but would still qualify as a “person of color.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely curious - are people still using words like BIPOC and micro aggressions? I live in a fairly red area and was under the impression these weren’t used anymore. Seems very 2024 college campus.

Some people still use latinx and zhe zher zhey

Yes, thanks. However the correct spelling is “Latinx,” or less commonly “LatinX.”