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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SLACs, Kenyon among them, will always provide a place for high income families who don't have the stats (or offer up any type of diversity) for Top 20 national universities, who nonetheless want an excellent education, develop lifelong friends and connections, and fun time before eventually going on to grad school.  Asian immigrant families just don't see SLACs as providing any pre-professional training and would for the most part rather end up at a second tier state flagship or perhaps stem focused places like Carnegie Mellon or Case Western.  That is the predicament of the SLACs.  They want diversity.  Diversity doesn't understand or want them.[/quote]

Asian representation is light at SLACs vs Ivies, although some have pretty high percentages. Haverford seems to be well over 20 percent and Pomona high teens, just as random examples. The fast growing “mixed race” category also seems to be predominantly part Asian. Some Asian families may not appreciate the low key prestige of SLACs but a major factor here is also that SLACs generally don’t have engineering programs and in some cases strong computer science programs. Comp Sci is in fact doing a lot to drive demand at the big state schools as well as Ivies, which perhaps squeezes some traditional liberal arts kids into SLACs. [/quote]

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