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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][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]

Then use your one drop rule for all schools or whatever it is you are advocating for, but do it the same way for all schools rather than one way for one (VT) and another way for the others.[/quote]

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