86.7% caucasian?!?!?!?!?!?!

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<p>Goblue, visiting the campus was just one a several items I listed. And we, unfortunately, had to borrow the money for the trip. But I, as a parent, could not send my D across country to a school she had never been to in person first. Her friend in the class ahead of her went to Cornell U. this year without visiting it first and we simply could not understand how you can do that.</p>

<p>We are glad we made the trip. We learned a lot about the schools. She really liked Georgetown prior to our trip. It was clear after our day there that it was not the right fit. I fell in love with the school I went to when I visited it in the fall of my senior year. It was our hope that our D would have the same experience on her visits and she did. It was at W&L.</p>

<p>I hope you are able to find a college that feels like home to you. Because it will be your home for 4 years. Hopefully, you will love the place. If you feel like, meh, it’s OK, then you will likely have a, meh, just OK experience.</p>

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<p>I have no interest in arguing about Washington and Lee being racist or not but I just thought I would give my two cents. Both of my parents went to Washington and Lee. My dad was a white middle class male from up North (not a rich southerner) and my mother is from India and my grandmother spent all of her money to send her to America for college (not white, definitely not rich, southern but not the kind you are talking about) so I definitely don’t think they are racist by any means. I visited the campus and yes while many of the students are white, I am white but I am half-indian so you can’t just tell by looking at someone. You don’t know their background or their academic stats. My dad obviously married my mom so he wasn’t racist, and my mom never experienced a racist student or faculty member while at Washington and Lee. She raves about it all of the time, saying that you will meet the nicest people ever there. They have a whole speaking-tradition to encourage friendliness among students and other visitors. In my opinion, you are reading too much into these numbers. A visit to the school will tell you they aren’t racist.</p>

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<p>HERE ARE SOME OTHER POSTS [GOBLUE] MADE ON CC.</p>

<p>“Im asking about average students at wharton who dont make it into IB. about 29% of grads go into IB jobs, this figure seems pretty low and is on par with many other b-schools. Dont most whartonites want to go into IB?
for comparison, UVA Mcintire sends 31% into IB.
So whats all the fuss about Wharton? I know they send more to PE and top BBs than UVA, but only the very top students in Wharton land those jobs, so for most students whats the advantage of Wharton over UVA/Ross?”</p>

<p>WHY IS HE/SHE WORRIED ABOUT WHARTON? I THOUGHT HE/SHE IS A HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR LOOKING FOR A COLLEGE? A BIT CURIOUS??</p>

<p>HE/SHE ALSO MADE THE FOLLOWING POST ON THE DUKE THREAD.</p>

<p>“The Duke class of 2017 includes only 5.6% hispanic students which is a very low figure (Cornell,ND, Georgetown all around 10-12% hispanic).
Is duke not choosing hispanics or are hispanics not choosing Duke?”</p>

<p>AND THIS POST ON THE NOTRE DAME THREAD.</p>

<p>“Is Notre Dame actively seeking minorities or are they fine with their “Upper-Class Whites” stereotype? With a middle 50% ACT range of 32-34 I fail to see how they can entice minorities with such scores to attend, since urms with such scores will likely be attending ivies or other top 10 schools”</p>

<p>AND THIS POST ON THE CLAREMONT MCKENNA THREAD.</p>

<p>“I am wondering how the acceptance rate at CMC can be so low (11.7%) when the quality of applicants seems to be much lower than other top ranked LACs ie: Amherst and Pomona. Looking at the 2013 Common Data set shows that the mid 50% ACT at CMC is a 29-32, while amherst is a 30-34, Pomona is a 29-34. At Pomona 91% of applicants are in the top 10% of their class, Amherst is 86%. CMC is only 63%. The differences are similair when comparing CMC to other top LACs like Williams, Bowdoin, Swarthmore. Yet CMC has a lower acceptance rate than all these schools. Any explanations?”</p>

<p>GO BLUE. YOU SHOULD FOCUS YOUR EFFORTS ON FINDING THE RIGHT SCHOOL FOR YOU.</p>

<p>BY THE WAY, HAVE YOU CALLED THE ADMISSIONS OFFICE AT W&L YET???</p>

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<p>Wlpoppa</p>

<p>Please provide constructive criticism on an important issue of diversity at W&L rather than Ad Hominem attacks on Goblue. Although I do not agree with many things stated by Goblue, he/she does raise a valid question about diversity at W&L as does the author of this thread. Proper discussion is needed. There are many unanswered questions that need answers such as “why is W&L admission actively recruiting URMs when it has sufficient qualified URM applicants to admit to increase its diversity” to name one.</p>

<p>Diversity is W&L’s weakness. Thirty five years ago there were just a handful of female students at W&L, but with active role of admission to remedy this issue, the balance of men to women is now about even. Bet many people did not know this. I would hope that someday the same will happen to the diversity issue, that it too becomes a non-factor.</p>

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<p>RL and GB. Have either of you looked at minority admission rates at the top 50 business schools like Harvard, Wharton, Emory, Kenan, etc? A majority are below the national demographic averages. Some as low as about 10% minority admission rates. Worse than w and l. Some don’t even post a class profile that includes diversity numbers (because they are so bad???). Guarantee you they all have plenty of good minorities applying and not getting accepted. Maybe you should go rant on the threads for these schools about lack of diversity?? Why focus on W&L when these B schools are so much more important for training the next generation of business titans? </p>

<p>Bottom line. There will be some schools that are underrepresented with minorities and some will be over represented. Doesn’t mean those that are underrepresented are racist. W&L is a great school that is highly selective. They look for demonstrated interest in the school as part of admission process (does not mean you need to make a trip to campus). I would like to hear from some minority candidates that had exceptional grades, good EC’s, showed deep interest in attending and then got turned down. </p>

<p>We have yet to hear one such story. Only conjecture and baseless accusations. </p>

<p>GB. Have you contacted admissions yet?</p>

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<p>wlpoppa.Why are you talking about business school?? This is a discussion on undergrad institutions, and Harvard Wharton Emory undergrad all have 4x the diversity of W&L. I’m not going to speculate on why those B-Schools have low minority rates because Im not an expert on B-School admissions. Also, B-school is an entirely different category because many of the top schools have 40-50% internationals ie. DIVERSITY.
Also, I love how you accuse me of being a ■■■■■ when in fact it is YOU who is the ■■■■■. I have brought up valid issues w W&L that many people are wondering about. In addition, all my claims are based on PUBLISHED statistics. Have you even presented one piece of evidence to back up any of your claims? No, you just blindly support W&L and give all sorts of excuses for the lack of diversity without presenting any evidence. It is you in fact who are the ■■■■■ because you have no data to back up any of your claims, and you have some major connection/infatuation with the school since you spend so much time defending it.
If W&L wants to keep its diversity as low as possible, fine, I really don’t have a problem with that, and I will choose another school. However, It is a blatant lie when they claim to strive for more diversity when there diversity numbers have been flat for the last 5 years (11-12%) and they accept 35-40% of white applicants and only 8% of asians/hispanics.
I,along with many other prospective students, used to think that W&L’s diversity numbers were so low since it is a southern rural liberal arts school and is not particularly well known. Now I realize that is a fallacy because 40% of ALL applicants to W&L are minorities, yet only 10% of the student body are minorities.</p>