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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are talking about fit. If a small school is best for your kid, then diversity isn't going to be about "sheer" numbers. If sheer numbers is important for you for fit, then a large school that is also diverse is a better fit.[/quote]
Of course diversity is about sheer numbers, because there is diversity within diversity that's much harder for small schools to have.

Also, you seem to be defining diversity in a narrow way.

Considering race only, what is more "diverse," a school with 2500 students and 30 percent students of color, or a school with 3500 students and 28 percent students of color?[/quote]
Sure but if you're a mainstream race-Black American/Nigerian, White, East Asian, and Mexican, which make up the majority of the represented people in this country, you will be fine represented in a small community, because there aren't that many people to compare in the first place. It's a lot harder to find the 500 or 600 black people in a 10,000 student population versus the 100 in a 2,000 student population. I went to a massive school that factually had 1,000s of black students but felt very isolated, because in my classes I would never see a black person, walking down the main row, I would never see a black person, etc.

Large state school environments are great for people who say they love diversity but never actually want to hang out with diverse groups of people. That's why Berkeley looks like it still is experiencing segregation, because it is undoubtedly difficult for students to hang out with actual diverse backgrounds at these schools.[/quote]

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