Hi everyone! I’m working on ranking colleges for the match. It is very important to me that my university has a lot of diversity, like Rice and Columbia. Can someone help me find other partners that are also diverse? Particularly I am looking for a community that will be welcoming to Latinx students.
Amherst, Brown, Emory, Penn, Northwestern, Stanford, Swarthmore, USC, Vanderbilt, Wesleyan, Williams, Yale, and to a lesser extent but probably good enough, Vassar, Tufts, Grinnell
It’s interesting that you mentioned Yale. I was kind of on the fence about Yale and then my adviser told me to take it off my list because it isn’t diverse. How can I look into this a bit more?
Racial diversity is pretty straightforward - just look at CDS for each college, or use a site that uses CDS data, like the government’s College Navigator. Here is Yale’s racial breakdown: https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=yale&s=all&id=130794#enrolmt
For socioeconomic data, there’s Pell grant %, % receiving need-based aid data. Some of that is also at College Nav - https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=yale&s=all&id=130794#finaid
Pretty much every college in the country’s data is there.
Percentages don’t tell the whole story of course. But it’s one angle that’s fairly easy to start with.
Thanks so much!
It’s also good to look at the percentage of first in the family to attend college numbers.
Yale was 18% first gen last year.
A helpful resource on socio-economic diversity. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html
Common Data Set on each school’s website will identify the percentage of class which falls into different racial/ethnic groups.