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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend’s son wanted to attend a university, public or private, with fewer than 50% white students. His was not a long list. [/quote]
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? [/quote]

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.[/quote]

:roll:

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.... [/quote]

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