<p>TheDartmouth.com</a> | College sees a decrease in its admissions yield</p>
<p>Interesting note in this article stating almost 39% of the Dartmouth first year class with be minorities. Are any of the new Ivy classes more diverse than this? </p>
<p>Dartmouth really has come a long way. It seems like its homogenous, conservative past is long behind it.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is the least diverse ivy…compared to the other ivy league schools</p>
<p>Ahh I’m going to be attending D this fall, and am very ready for it. I know you could definitely see the diversity on campus.</p>
<p>I actually think white people shouldn’t be allowed to attend university.</p>
<p>No I’m not joking.</p>
<p>Columbia, for sure.</p>
<p>Columbia is, I believe</p>
<p>I always heard Cornell was across the board</p>
<p>lol, Diverse maybe. Accepting… I am not quite sure. Especially how one Dartmouth student address the newly appointed President of Dartmouth… Apparently that racial comment about Dr. Jim Yong Kim was the result of having too many Asians on campus ??</p>
<p>Penn is 44% non-white.</p>
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<p>Would you care to explain this?</p>
<p>Harvard’s probably the most diverse Ivy - less than 44% Caucasian and over 10% international. It’s also very diverse in terms of religion and socioeconomics.</p>
<p>Dartmouth numbers may not stand out against some of their peers but I’m guessing that getting international students is a tougher sell to come to Hanover, NH then NYC, Boston, or Philly or schools a fairly short train ride to these cities.</p>
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<p>Yep. All those kids who grew up on dairy farms.</p>
<p>I would say Dartmouth is the most conservative Ivy.</p>
<p>Dartmouth has a higher percentage of blacks and Hispanics than most ivies and a slightly lower percentage of Asians than some.</p>
<p>There are no conservative ivies.</p>
<p>I looked at the statistical breakdowns for entering students at collegeboard.com, and counted the following groups:</p>
<p>-American Indian/Alaskan Native
-Asian/Pacific Islander
-Black/Non-Hispanic
-Hispanic
-Non-Resident Alien</p>
<p>The total was quite similar, 42 to 44 %, for six of the eight Ivies, including Dartmouth. </p>
<p>Columbia seemed significantly higher, at 53%. Cornell seemed significantly lower, at 38%. </p>
<p>Dartmouth was on the low side, relative to other Ivies, for Asian/Pacific Islanders and Non-Resident Aliens. However, Dartmouth was high for American Indians/Alaskan Natives.</p>
<p>These numbers are only for undergraduates. Overall campus diversity may be higher at research-oriented Ivies that enroll large numbers of foreign graduate students.</p>
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Obviously. Nearly half their class is from NY.</p>
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Thats b/c Dartmouth has a special connection to Native Americans b/c I think it has something to do with their history and relationship with them.</p>
<p>^^Correct. Dartmouth was founded back in colonial times primarily as a school to educate American Indians. But that lasted only few years, and it soon evolved into into a school for the English colonists. They redicovered their roots in about the early 1970s and instituted special outreach and recruitement programs for Native Americans that continue to this day.</p>
<p>Hmom5, does that remain true today? In my day (the 1980s) Columbia and Dartmouth were VERY conservative places. Oh sure, there were plenty of “Liberal” leaning faculty, but most faculty and administration people I knew on those campuses had rather sharp views of the world, and those views were rather minimalist, academically [not intellectually] speaking. I.e, there wasn’t a lot of room for radically evolutionary political or cultural ideas, excepting liberal consideration for gay rights. And it’s only relatively recently that the intellectualism of women has been rewarded with recognition on these campuses.</p>
<p>LakeWashington, you are absolutely correct. My statement “most conservative Ivy” refers to institutional ideology, NOT the racial and ethnic population.</p>