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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CU Boulder is fine, but I think it depends on your child and his or her major.  My DD didn’t love it — she found the girls to be too rich and catty — but she got a decent education.  She felt like the diversity was less than it is on the East coast, which she missed.  Boys might have a different time.  Engineering school is excellent.  Off campus housing is very expensive.  The dining halls suck.  It’s hard to get around if you don’t live close to campus or have a car because the buses don’t go late (she spends a lot on Ubers).[/quote]
I don’t know anyone looking to Colorado for diversity.

This all sounds like someone who didn’t do research. Boulder is a hot place for young people => expensive => expensive housing => rich people.[/quote]

It was more of a realization that diversity mattered. [/quote]

That happened to me at Penn State main campus.  And I'm a suburban white person.[/quote]

I went to Penn state as a minority.

Penn state isn’t “not diverse”

The issue is that is very townie when I went.

I assume that has changed now though. 45% are oos (though the oos mix is not as balanced as Michigan)

Cu is way less diverse than psu, racially and ses wise [/quote]

I'm probably a lot older than you, PP.

I lived in Atherton, the PSU Honors dorm.  The MLK house was also in Atherton at that time.  It definitely felt like it was put there to be "safe" from the gen pop.

While I was there, there was a bit of a scandal about people figuring out that University Housing was disproportionately placing black students in certain residence halls out of a misplaced hope of making the dorms more welcoming.  The students affected didn't appreciate that.

I heard a lot of racist comments and strange attitudes over the year I was there.  Directed at black people and foreign TAs.  There also seemed to be nobody around campus except for 18-22 year olds.  I missed just even seeing people who weren't kids around.

The main point is, some people find a homogenous environment stifling.  Especially if they don't fit with it.  If you're not interested in rushing, a Greek-heavy school is probably a poor fit, etc.  I didn't expect to dislike PSU based on homogeneity.  When I got there, it started to bug me and contributed to my decision to transfer.  So I think diversity is definitely worth thinking about when picking a college. Diversity isn't just a code word for race.  It's about intellectual diversity and appreciation of the contributions of various cultures.  For example, there's a Tajik teahouse in Boulder.  And a big Nepalese restaurant in Golden.  I don't remember any places that cool in State College.[/quote]

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