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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So much more complex than people on this thread are recognizing.

I’m white with BIPOC kids. Both my kids see themselves as individuals first and are turned off by identity politics and affiliation by race. OTOH, they have no interest in schools that seem to have a dominant culture—whether class-based, political, or geographical.

Racial diversity is, to them, a proxy for determining whether a school is diverse in the sense of not being monolithic in these other ways.

I think it’s an imperfect measure but also reasonably accurate in a general sense. I attended a monolithic SLAC (think frat parties and lax bros) then a very diverse grad school. Both awesome experiences, but the grad school had a MUCH wider range of experiences and people. Far more interesting, not bc of racial/ethnic diversity, but bc of what it indicated.[/quote]

My white DS was comfortable with the socioeconomic diversity of his HS and wanted something similar for his college.

He got admitted to a private that is racially diverse (almost the same percentage of white students as his HS), but the economic aspect couldn’t be fully replicated at a private as it could be at a public like Rutgers, Temple or UCs.

But he did look into the economic profile of the families of the students.  For this, there was data from niche.com (although the source is unknown) and the old 2017 NYT database. There is also information about the percentage of Pell Grant recipients.  While imperfect, he reassured that there would be a fairly substantial number lower middle income kids.

An imperfect science to be sure.[/quote]

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