<p>BTW, Jewish does not equal white.</p>
<p>Really good point. I’m both Jewish and multiracial, and while I’m generally perceived as white and experience a lot of white privilege, that’s not exactly the same thing as being white. I do find it troublesome that people are assuming a large Jewish population causes a lack of diversity. Just because Brandeis isn’t as diverse as Stony Brook doesn’t mean it’s less diverse than schools with smaller Jewish populations and similar racial statistics.</p>
<p>midatlmom, it’s worth remembering that graduation rates have a context outside of what the college does or has to offer. You can’t have meaningful socioeconomic diversity without having people who need to work full-time or close to it in order to pay for school, for example. Or who have to take a semester off or go part-time to take care of a sick parent who lacks an alternative support system. Not to mention SB has more people doing degrees in engineering and the hard sciences that require more credits and take longer to finish (e.g., you can theoretically finish a Stony Brook BME degree in 4 years, but if you don’t hate yourself to begin with you’re pretty damn sure to by the time you’re done).</p>