Anonymous
09/17/2025 22:58
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:I don’t really see why rural kids deserve to go to top colleges just cause they go to crap public schools. Improve your communities.
So you feel the same way about inner-city kids who go to crap public schools... right? They really need to improve their communities. Right?
Anonymous
09/17/2025 22:57
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Its also much much more white.
Not just white. Latino too these days.
have you walked around the campus lately? very very white.
What are you talking about? NP. I was on campus last week. Very non-white. Want data?
me too. lol. And it's much whiter than 3 years ago.
Class of 2028, 25% non-hispanic white per 2024-25 CDS
Class of 2027, 29% non-hispanic white per 2023-24 CDS
Class of 2026, 33% non-hispanic white per 2022-23 CDS
Isn’t the US is around 58% non-Hispanic white? And people are complaining the Northwestern is too white at 25% non-Hispanic white?
The Midwest is probably 70-80% non Hispanic white.
That person claiming Northwestern it too white is full of it.
Anonymous
09/17/2025 22:56
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Its also much much more white.
Not just white. Latino too these days.
have you walked around the campus lately? very very white.
What are you talking about? NP. I was on campus last week. Very non-white. Want data?
me too. lol. And it's much whiter than 3 years ago.
You don't know what you are talking about.
--Different parent of current Northwestern students
Anonymous
09/17/2025 22:54
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Its also much much more white.
Not just white. Latino too these days.
have you walked around the campus lately? very very white.
I don't think you have been to Northwestern.
It is very asian and not very white
Anonymous
09/17/2025 22:53
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:Its also much much more white.
Northwestern is very, very asian
Anonymous
09/17/2025 22:42
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Aren't there more and more UMC and up kids who were born in wealthy coastal communities that now claim to be "rural" because their parents telework or don't really have to work anymore so they moved somewhere like Montana? And school quality isn't really an issue because they can go to boarding school?
Even 30 years ago, lots of these kids at Ivies.
Interesting.
It’s also “rural and small town”….kind of broad?
The colleges see what schools they attend.
You missed the point. The colleges want these kids from boarding schools. They get to check the geographic diversity box while still getting a kid from a feeder as well.
You are really stretching here. The colleges are looking for kids from rural high schools - boarding school kids don't count.
They do count as rural and they do count for their home state. And they are more academically qualified than a kid with no rigor who went to a crappy rural school.
DP. Depends where thr "rural" designation is coming from. College Board Recognition uses the high school. Half the high schools in the US are designated rural.
Many good boarding schools are located in rural areas...Deerfield, for example, is designated as rural.
No college admissions officer is looking at a kid from Deerfield and thinking how rural and impoverished those kids are. Give me a break.
Rural, but not impoverished. They're looking at those kids as knocking out two birds with one stone. A high rigor kid with an excellent profile who also checks the rural box. What's not to love?
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They love that.
Anonymous
09/17/2025 22:23
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Aren't there more and more UMC and up kids who were born in wealthy coastal communities that now claim to be "rural" because their parents telework or don't really have to work anymore so they moved somewhere like Montana? And school quality isn't really an issue because they can go to boarding school?
Even 30 years ago, lots of these kids at Ivies.
Interesting.
It’s also “rural and small town”….kind of broad?
The colleges see what schools they attend.
You missed the point. The colleges want these kids from boarding schools. They get to check the geographic diversity box while still getting a kid from a feeder as well.
You are really stretching here. The colleges are looking for kids from rural high schools - boarding school kids don't count.
They do count as rural and they do count for their home state. And they are more academically qualified than a kid with no rigor who went to a crappy rural school.
DP. Depends where thr "rural" designation is coming from. College Board Recognition uses the high school. Half the high schools in the US are designated rural.
Many good boarding schools are located in rural areas...Deerfield, for example, is designated as rural.
No college admissions officer is looking at a kid from Deerfield and thinking how rural and impoverished those kids are. Give me a break.
Rural, but not impoverished. They're looking at those kids as knocking out two birds with one stone. A high rigor kid with an excellent profile who also checks the rural box. What's not to love?
Anonymous
09/17/2025 22:21
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It kind of cements the idea that JD Vance was likely a DEI admit to Yale.
For sure. And, boy, didn't he make the most of it!
lol…he really did. He’s such a hypocrite.
Actually, it sounds like you might be. You'd be fine if he were a person of color who received that Yale Law admission and used it to attain the 2nd highest elected post in the land. However, you're a little salty since he's a chubby, white guy from Appalachia who did it. Maybe you should look in the mirror and ask yourself what you're *really* angry about after all.
The issue isn't that he benefitted from DEI, it's that he's pulling the ladder up beneath him. It would also be shitty if he was a wealthy urban African American who was forcing colleges to stop preferential admitting rural and low income students.
Anonymous
09/17/2025 20:33
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
This is good for society and should be encouraged
Anonymous
09/17/2025 19:35
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It kind of cements the idea that JD Vance was likely a DEI admit to Yale.
For sure. And, boy, didn't he make the most of it!
lol…he really did. He’s such a hypocrite.
Actually, it sounds like you might be. You'd be fine if he were a person of color who received that Yale Law admission and used it to attain the 2nd highest elected post in the land. However, you're a little salty since he's a chubby, white guy from Appalachia who did it. Maybe you should look in the mirror and ask yourself what you're *really* angry about after all.
+ a million
So much this.
DP but I’m salty over this because he destroyed DEI and works for an administration that went after it with gusto as if it were a threat to society. So he benefits from it but takes it away from “others” not realizing HE benefited as well.
It’s a a lack of self-awareness and an excess of ego. He thinks he “earned” that spot. But he thinks someone who was black was “given” it. Clueless and cruel.
For a long time, when it came down to a student of color or a white student, with the exact same credentials, the student of color would gain admission. He's just trying to make it even for everyone, regardless of race.
I guarantee you that a white boy from McLean or Bethesda or New York was rejected from Yale with the same or better stats and resume as JD Vance.
Sure, but you're missing the whole point of the post. We're talking about rural, disadvantaged kids of all races - not your brother who graduated from Georgetown Prep in 1985 with a goal to major in marketing and boobs at whatever Ivy school would take him.
No, you didn’t read the comment I responded to. That person assumed a black person wasn’t as qualified as the white people but got preference. Not true. My point is that Vance was that person- but it was geography that helped him beat out the otherwise similar white boys from rich cities.
Conservatives utter lack of self-awareness is fascinating. Your inability to see how racial diversity and geographic diversity are the SAME thing exposes either your inability to think, or your racism. Probably both.
The comment you responded to qualified it by using the phrase, "with the exact same credentials." Nobody said that a black student, who was less qualified, was chosen over a white person. If you're going to throw bombs and cite evidence, make sure sure YOU use your ABILITY to think.
Anonymous
09/17/2025 19:31
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It kind of cements the idea that JD Vance was likely a DEI admit to Yale.
For sure. And, boy, didn't he make the most of it!
lol…he really did. He’s such a hypocrite.
Actually, it sounds like you might be. You'd be fine if he were a person of color who received that Yale Law admission and used it to attain the 2nd highest elected post in the land. However, you're a little salty since he's a chubby, white guy from Appalachia who did it. Maybe you should look in the mirror and ask yourself what you're *really* angry about after all.
+ a million
So much this.
DP but I’m salty over this because he destroyed DEI and works for an administration that went after it with gusto as if it were a threat to society. So he benefits from it but takes it away from “others” not realizing HE benefited as well.
It’s a a lack of self-awareness and an excess of ego. He thinks he “earned” that spot. But he thinks someone who was black was “given” it. Clueless and cruel.
For a long time, when it came down to a student of color or a white student, with the exact same credentials, the student of color would gain admission. He's just trying to make it even for everyone, regardless of race.
I guarantee you that a white boy from McLean or Bethesda or New York was rejected from Yale with the same or better stats and resume as JD Vance.
Sure, but you're missing the whole point of the post. We're talking about rural, disadvantaged kids of all races - not your brother who graduated from Georgetown Prep in 1985 with a goal to major in marketing and boobs at whatever Ivy school would take him.
No, you didn’t read the comment I responded to. That person assumed a black person wasn’t as qualified as the white people but got preference. Not true. My point is that Vance was that person- but it was geography that helped him beat out the otherwise similar white boys from rich cities.
Conservatives utter lack of self-awareness is fascinating. Your inability to see how racial diversity and geographic diversity are the SAME thing exposes either your inability to think, or your racism. Probably both.
Anonymous
09/17/2025 19:18
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
No one cares about how good you are at throwing ballsAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Affirmative action for dumb whites to take hardworking Asian American spots. Uneducated, untalented, and unsophisticated but they get the red carpet.
There's more to the economy than being good at violin and math olympiad.
Anonymous
09/17/2025 18:16
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It kind of cements the idea that JD Vance was likely a DEI admit to Yale.
For sure. And, boy, didn't he make the most of it!
lol…he really did. He’s such a hypocrite.
Actually, it sounds like you might be. You'd be fine if he were a person of color who received that Yale Law admission and used it to attain the 2nd highest elected post in the land. However, you're a little salty since he's a chubby, white guy from Appalachia who did it. Maybe you should look in the mirror and ask yourself what you're *really* angry about after all.
+ a million
So much this.
DP but I’m salty over this because he destroyed DEI and works for an administration that went after it with gusto as if it were a threat to society. So he benefits from it but takes it away from “others” not realizing HE benefited as well.
It’s a a lack of self-awareness and an excess of ego. He thinks he “earned” that spot. But he thinks someone who was black was “given” it. Clueless and cruel.
For a long time, when it came down to a student of color or a white student, with the exact same credentials, the student of color would gain admission. He's just trying to make it even for everyone, regardless of race.
I guarantee you that a white boy from McLean or Bethesda or New York was rejected from Yale with the same or better stats and resume as JD Vance.
Sure, but you're missing the whole point of the post. We're talking about rural, disadvantaged kids of all races - not your brother who graduated from Georgetown Prep in 1985 with a goal to major in marketing and boobs at whatever Ivy school would take him.
Anonymous
09/17/2025 18:14
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:Hasn't that always been something they're looking for? I've always assumed I got a boost for being from a rural area 30 years ago (based on comparing my application to my peers).
Yes
Anonymous
09/17/2025 18:06
Subject: More rural and small town kids - that's the "new" diversity
Anonymous wrote:It's not the "new diversity" it's just a kind of diversity that has always been recruited for an prioritized, just called FGLI and/or geographic preference. It's how JD Vance got into Yale law.
I went to Harvard and had multiple classmates from WV and Appalachia.
And Indian Country. There is value to spreading Harvard education across America. Some people go back and help their community. Even JD Vance is trying to help his people.