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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dc goes to vcu.  Kid is very low key, not a big party person, and has found vcu an easy place to be.  Only thing noticed, is that it is extremely diverse, but not a lot of cross over between the groups, which was a little disappointing to my kid.  [/quote]

I went to grad school at vcu and lived in Richmond after that and would say the lack of crossover is true of vcu and Richmond overall. I think part of the issue within vcu is separation of schools. Non majors are limited in ability to participate in other schools/depts' classes, productions/ensembles,  etc. [/quote]

Again, I disagree based on my kid’s experience.  In fact, you really have to work pretty hard to “stick with your own kind” in a school with no majority.  I’d look inward and not outward if I were you.  The school might not be the problem. [/quote]

Excuse me? Why the personal slam? I'm just relaying my observations about the way the university is structured and how that affected crossover between programs (eg. music and theatre shared a building but had little crossover. Both sets of students would have benefitted from more exposure to the other). The lack of crossover in the city, I noticed in my side hustle as a cab driver. This was several years, so things could have changed. I had respect for your perspective until that last comment. [/quote]

We must have a different understanding of “diversity” I guess.  I wasn’t talking about diversity of majors and programs.  I was talking about diversity of actual people.  [/quote]

These are actual people. An apology for poor inference and gross judgment would be good. Even if it was about racial diversity, to assume someone chooses to "stick with their own kind" and essentially play into racial bias just because they shared their experience is really poor form. Why the need for judgment here? So petty.[/quote]

Oh stop trying to pick a fight.  We were talking about diversity of people, and you started talking about majors.  You made no sense.

I’m done with you.  [/quote]

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