<p>From what I’ve read in college handbooks, BC seems to be lacking in the number of minority students. And the few minority students that do attend BC tend to stay in their own groups. Is this true?</p>
<p>No ...</p>
<p>BC's % of minority students has almost doubled since 2000 and is now among the highest in the country. AHANA (which is BC's term for African-American, Hispanic, Asian and Native American) students make up about 1/3 of the student body, though it varies by class (for this year's freshmen it was 27%). International students make up an additional 10%. For more info and stats, check out: <a href="http://www.bc.edu/admission/undergrad/studentsofcolor/ahanafacts/%5B/url%5D">http://www.bc.edu/admission/undergrad/studentsofcolor/ahanafacts/</a></p>
<p>... and yes ...</p>
<p>While BC has done a good job of increasing diversity, in my opinion it has done a poor job of encouraging different kinds of students to interact with each other once they get here. Don't get me wrong, students of different races, religions, politics, sexualities, etc do interact (a lot, actually). But these interactions happen in spite of, not because of, the administration's formal structures which, again in my opinion, actually encourage students to stay within their comfort zones. Case in point: special interest housing just encourages segregation, even if not on racial lines per se.</p>