<p>Somewhere on this forum, I read that Columbia is the Ivy League school that favors or at least embraces diversity the most.</p>
<p>I don't really see how particularly embracing Columbia is for diversity. I guess what I am trying to say is, what makes Columbia favor diversity more than the other Ivy Leagues and even other top undergraduate schools, like UChicago and Rice? </p>
<p>Please don't just say NYC :)</p>
<p>in part it's nyc, because colleges tend to get more applicants from near by areas and thus take more people from the area, if the surrounding area is diverse there's a slightly higher chance the college campus will be diverse.</p>
<p>fin aid is supposed to be substantial for most columbia acceptees, and according to Denzera a history of taking Minorities and the less privilidged.</p>
<p>other than that, not much really, while i've felt columbia to be more diverse than peer schools i've visited, it's firstly very difficult to decide on how to define diversity and if a definition can be agreed on, it's impossible to guage diversity from either statistics or visits to other colleges.</p>
<p>What's diversity? Based on geography? race? socioeconomic status? academic interests? extracurricular interests? All top colleges value diversity in each of those ways.</p>
<p>let's start with % of african-americans, or better yet, % of minorities in the student body. then let's talk about students coming from families below the poverty-line, or below some arbitrary income-level divider. i'm not going to dig the statistics up, but I can assure you that Columbia has the highest % of international students among its peer schools.</p>
<p>and so on. does that make it better? No. But if you're from something other than a WASP background, it does tend to make you more comfortable on campus.</p>
<p>Does Columbia favor females over males, since I'm under the impression that Columbia is quite engineering-centric.</p>
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<p>Actually, no.</p>
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<p>Your impression is wrong. SEAS is 1/4 the size of CC.</p>
<p>Girls are on even footing in CC. In SEAS, they get a bump.</p>