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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one who has ever been to Kalamazoo would claim it's a school for the affluent. That's just not its vibe, ethos, or population.

But FYI: While Kalamazoo's percentage of kids from the top 1% is lower -- by a lot! -- than most private colleges, at 5.5%, it is higher than JMU's (which is 2.6%). BUT Kalamazoo also has a higher percentage of kids from the bottom 50% than JMU (16.4% Kalamazoo vs. 12.6%  JMU).

For context, on the top 1% metric, a lot of prestigious LACs (Nescacs, Davidson, Carleton, etc.) start at 15% of their student body and go up to 25+%. Which is why the whole conversation feels really weird to me. Both of these schools do better than most schools in this metric, which is great. (Yay, Kalamazoo, yay, JMU. Remind me why we're fighting?)

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html [/quote]

PP, I'm not the one with whom you've been going back and forth, but want to say that I appreciate your posting.

As a K grad from some time ago, the school has changed a lot over the years. When I attended, it was pretty much coasting. The president when I started clearly pined for a position somewhere on the East coast. The president after him was a gentle soul, but perhaps not up for the task of heading up a college in the Reagan years.

But, PP, the student body was a lot more affluent, or maybe aspirational affluent, at that time - preppies who were very pre-professional in focus. Subsequent administrations have worked hard to diverse the student body by economics, geography, and race and have been fairly successful in doing. Good to hear that they are succeeding in some of these areas.[/quote]

I'm not the PP people are going back and forth with, either! I'm a DP (I posted the Forbes list -- I like actual data, especially when conversations start going round and round).

That's really interesting perspective. My kid visited and applied to K -- we did a big, fun midwest road trip, and had a really nice night in the city of Kalamazoo, as well as a great tour. The kids we met were SO down-to-earth, really humble and kind of quietly thoughtful. AO was also a former K student, attended on scholarship. The place clearly meant a lot to him. Campus was charming, but without the flashy $75 million buildings that a lot of schools feel compelled to build. And if I recall, the one supplemental was about giving back to the city of Kalamazoo. So that history is very interesting. [/quote]

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