<p>Vossron–good point. On the other hand, even if every one of those “unknown” students were white, which is probably not so, that would still add up to 56% white,which is smaller than all of the Midwestern colleges listed above. </p>
<p>Searchlight–Aren’t colleges like Oberlin also considered liberal in orientation?</p>
<p>Diversity should also include diversity among whites–children of coal miners as well as bankers; children of soldiers as well as professors; diversity of religion.</p>
<p>Although research in some areas–such as the sciences–is usually about change, I think of research in other areas as often about history, which may appeal more to conservatives, although we certainly see some efforts to rewrite history a la Oliver Stone.
It may be that conservatives are more attracted to the business world, or that liberals in generally conservative states find academia a rare bastion of like-minded people.</p>
<p>I believe most colleges make great efforts to find that kind of diversity. That is one reason why Ivy League and some other colleges of that calibre go to great lengths to make sure that they pay for low-income students to attend–white AND black. And why colleges strive to have students from every state in the U.S., etc. You’re not saying that there’s more of that kind of diversity in colleges in one region than another, are you? Especially if you compare state school to state school, top LAC to top LAC, etc.?</p>
<p>I agree with everything you say, but believe that some colleges seek racial diversity more through middle class African Americans than poorer ones and that efforts to find “diamonds in the rough” in Appalchia may not have matched those in urban areas.</p>
<p>That’s possible, though rather hard to quantify. It may be harder to locate talented country teens because they’re more spread out into remote locations. Sometimes poor urban kids can be available for special opportunities that aren’t available for rural kids (like getting special training from dance companies). There are also targeted scholarships for one group or the other. I agree that it is important to reach out to all needy kids, whatever their race.</p>
<p>We are from the Northeast but looked at many LAC’s in the midwest. The reason for us was simple, D had a greater chance getting into a quality LAC in the midwest as an out of region student than she would getting into a similar quality LAC in the Northeast. We found some amazing LAC’s in Ohio, Minnesota and Indiana, colleges that might have been difficult to be admitted into if we resided in those states.In addition, may of those colleges had a lower cost to attend, even factoring in the airfare. D ended up selecting an LAC in the south but had a really hard time choosing over one in the midwest.</p>
<p>Ditto BobbyCT’s post. I could have written Bobby’s post.</p>
<p>Endicott and Bobby, I think you are both right.
Endicott, it may be easier for schools to find poor minority kids because so many are in big cities. Whether they the rural poor (which is probably a larger portion of poor whites than poor minorities) are scouted as much I do not know, but certainly everything I have heard, read or seen suggests otherwise.</p>
<p>I know they have that college in Kentucky for poor Appalachian kids (Berea?), but you could be right about that.</p>