Reply to Diversity concern at liberal arts schools

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Diversity concern at liberal arts schools"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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 [b]higher ranked and better endowed schools [/b]have more diversity[/quote]

We had this concern when  looking at midwestern SLACS.
Looking at Midwestern LACs in general there's less racial diversity than these top schools listed above, but there's also quite a bit of variation with "rank" not seeming to correlate with diversity any more.   Here's the schools we looked at.  Interestingly, though we didn't pull these stats while visiting, DC's comfort/interest/sense of fit seemed to align with them fairly well--roughly if a school had 65% or > white students it often seemed like less of a good fit.

Kenyon:   72% white, 7% Latino, 3% Black, 3% Asian
Oberlin:  66% white, 7% Latino, 5% Black, and 4% Asian
Wooster  68% white, 8% black, 5% Latino, 5% Asian
Denison: 65% white, 9.5% Latino, 6.5% Black, 4% Asian
Kalamazoo: 56% white, 13% Latino,8% Asian, 8% Black
Carleton: 62% white, 8% Latino, 7.5% Asian, 4.7% Black
St. Olaf: 73% white,  8% black, 6 % Asian, 5% Latino
Macalester: 64% white, 6% Asian, 6% Latino, 3% Black

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics