Reply to Why a Large Flagship/Public?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Why a Large Flagship/Public?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a brown URM I would never choose a LAC or SLACK because they tend to lack racial diversity. Public flagships have more people that look like me. [/quote]

For the more rural LACs that can be true, but [b]many LACs have a strong diversity of students, especially those that are more selective. You should check out their Common Data Sets to see the numbers.[/quote]
[/b]

I have yet to find one. Would love to be pointed in that direction. I suspect we may have different ideas of "strong diversity."[/quote]

Vassar, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, Grinnell, Haverford, Macalester, Scripps, Pitzer, Occidental (Obama's first college), Reed, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna, Carleton, and every women's college I've looked at all have over 40% students of color.[/quote]

"students of color" don't mean much. Not PP you are responding to but I avoid SLACS for same reason. I'm black. Looking for black people. Not students of color. Vasser for example has 4% black people. Wesleyan has 3.2% Etc.....No thanks! [/quote]

If someone means they're looking for Black students, I assume they'd say so rather than using the euphemism of 'diversity'. But if that's what was meant, then you're both correct that LACs are less likely to yield what you're hoping for.

[/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