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[quote=Anonymous]Diversity was not a top consideration for either of my kids in selecting colleges.They are cis white kids.

With my first kid was going through the college application process, I remember discussing this with very left friends. They all said how important diversity was for their (white) kids, how their (white) kids couldn't imagine going to a college that wasn't diverse and they were shocked! that my kid didn't put diversity as the number one factor in choosing a college.

Fast forward a year when they made their college decisions. My cis white kid goes to their top pick - which happens to be in a red state (the horrors!). They picked this college due to academics, good merit money and I could tell from the first time I saw them on a tour of campus, they had an ease with the college that they didn't have with any other college.

My friends' kids went to very liberal NE, small liberal arts colleges. Top ranked.

Guess which kid is having the college experience with the most diversity? Diversity of skin color, diversity of thought, etc.?

What I came to understand with my friends' kids...(those kids are white but aren't cis.) They just wanted to go to schools where there was a sizeable population of kids just like them. Suddenly, when push came to shove, the gay kid was okay with going to a primarily white school because at least there was a sizeable gay population.  The woke, blue hair kid just wanted to go to the prestigious, highly ranked woke liberal arts school that had a high percentage of white, woke, blue haired type of kids.

For everybody, there is no unicorn of a college that has all the characteristics one is looking for - affordable, strong academics, location, prestige/ranking. Something has to give - and for white kids, that usually means they will give up diversity before giving up one of the other characteristics.[/quote]

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