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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
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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]

Then you need look no further than a HBCU. [/quote]

I did undergrad at an HBCU and did my masters at Stanford for electrical engineering. My son is now looking at HBCUs and diverse non-HBCUs. There are schools that bring in more than 3 and 4% black undergrad students. They're not SLACS.[/quote]

Swarthmore is 7.6% Black or African American.   VT is 4.8% and UVA is 6.8%.  You shouldn't generalize.[/quote]

Not the person you're talking to but VT is 9% this year. [/quote]

VT got to 9% (actually 8.7%) by combining black with multi-race, so that is changing the measuring stick.  Actual is 6.8%.  Still it is an improvement.[/quote]

You can't live in a country that claims the one drop rule and then be mad when the one drop rule is applied. Cops don't ask those multi-race people if they're mullti-race before they shoot them unarmed. [/quote]

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