Lack of diversity

[simplystated1961]

<p>I will be graduating this year and have started my college search. In looking for reach schools I noticed that Princeton University lacks diversity with only 7% Hispanics. Why is this? There are certainly enough very high performing Hispanics who meet their standards. Harvard admitted 10% Hispanics to their last class.</p>

[PtonGrad2000]

<p>Posted on May 1, 2012:</p>

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@simplystated1961

My daughter received an invitation from Columbia to attend a Master Class at Cold Spring Harbor High School.

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<p>Posted today August 26, 2012:</p>

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@simplystated1961

I will be graduating this year and have started my college search.

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<p>I think Simplystated1961 will need to explain to us how he was a parent back in May and is now in his final year of high school.</p>

<p>That having been said and while it’s clear from the above that our new poster is not quite who he says he is, the question of ethnic diversity at Princeton is still worth addressing and I’ll give the poster the benefit of the doubt and assume that she is the daughter using her parent’s login.</p>

<p>Regarding diversity, you’ll find plenty of it at Princeton. Almost exactly half of last year’s entering class was either an American minority or an international student, a large percentage of which are non-white.</p>

<p>Here is Hispanic Magazine’s most recent ranking of the “Top 25 Colleges for Hispanics”.</p>

<p>2010 Hispanic Magazine
“Top 25 Colleges for Hispanics”</p>

<p>1—Princeton
2—Harvard
3—Yale
4—Williams
5—Amherst
6—MIT
7—Stanford
8—Swarthmore
9—Columbia
10-U. of Chicago</p>

<p>[Inspiration</a> Central<a href=“Note%20that%20it%20appears%20there%20was%20no%20ranking%20done%20in%202011.”>/url</a></p>

<p>. . . and here are a couple of prominent Hispanic figures on the political scene, one from the left and one from the right who both did their undergraduate work at Princeton. I think you’ll agree that these two are some of those “very high performing Hispanics” to which you refer!</p>

<p>Sonia Sotomayor (Princeton Class of 1976) First Latina U.S. Supreme Court Justice
[url=<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor]Sonia”>Sonia Sotomayor - Wikipedia]Sonia</a> Sotomayor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://inspirationcentral.inspireculture.com/?p=305]Inspiration”>http://inspirationcentral.inspireculture.com/?p=305)</p>

<p>Ted Cruz (Princeton Class of 1992) First Hispanic Texas Solicitor General and likely next U.S. Senator from Texas
[GOP</a> rising star Ted Cruz - SFGate](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/GOP-rising-star-Ted-Cruz-3815804.php]GOP”>http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/GOP-rising-star-Ted-Cruz-3815804.php)
[Ted</a> Cruz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz]Ted”>Ted Cruz - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>I could go on with a long list of very prominent Princeton minority alumni in the arts, sciences, business and politics, but perhaps the best known currently is First Lady Michelle Obama (Princeton Class of 1985).</p>

[kwu]

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There are certainly enough very high performing Hispanics who meet their standards.

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<p>How can you be certain? Citation?</p>

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Harvard admitted 10% Hispanics to their last class.

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<p>Harvard may bow to political pressure.</p>

<p>Or, to resolve the paradox, Harvard admitted most of the nation’s “very high performing Hispanics,” such that there were not enough of them to go around, and Princeton was unwilling to lower standards and compromise the quality of its class by reaching out beyond this pool.</p>