<p>ok, all you multicultural kids should know what i'm talking about. i'm interested in knowing which schools have them and which schools give you a leg up in admissions for going. </p>
<p>my list so far
Oberlin
Colby (i'm going!) (has multiple weekends)
Middlebury (i'm going!)
Smith (i hear this one gives you a leg up)
Macalester
Swarthmore
Bowdoin
Bryn Mawr </p>
<p>know of any more?
PS this is just for information, not so i can go to more, but if anyone knows if the midd or colby one helps with admissions, i would love to hear about it.</p>
<p>From what I can figure out, the multicultural days are mainly for the colleges to try to sell themselves to very hard to recruit URMs. Places like Colby, which are small, overwhelmingly white, and in a very white region of the country, have an extremely hard time attracting racial diversity. I highly doubt that your going to a multicultural day will help your chances. If you have the stats to get in and you're a URM, your chances probably are very good of acceptance.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Colby's chances of getting a URM with the stats to get in probably are low because most such students aren't interested in going to a very white college in the middle of nowhere in a white region. URMs with the kind of stats to get into Colby are in short supply, and are also being heavily recruited by colleges in more diverse areas.</p>
<p>When it comes to places like Swarthmore and Grinnell, which fly in selected URMs (after inviting a select group of URMs to apply for the fly-ins), getting a fly-in is a big indication that one is going to get an admission offer. The people who don't get admission offers probably do things like obviously blow off their application or do something very inappropriate at the fly-ins such as getting drunk and spouting off profanities.</p>
<p>When you visit on multicultural weekends, keep in mind that those weekends filled with multicultural activities are not the norm. Such colleges do not usually have an array of multicultural speakers, concerts and an influx of multicultural students. The normal atmosphere is much, much less diverse than what you will experience on multicultural weekends. Some URMs are happy at colleges where they themselves make up a large part of the diversity. Many URMs are not happy in such places. Indeed, there's a recent thread on the Parent's Forum by a URM freshman who is at a predominantly white LAC in, I think, New England, who feels so miserable and isolated that she's considering transferring to a historically black college.</p>
<p>Consequently, before deciding where to go, visit on a regular weekend and see if the atmosphere truly suits your needs.</p>
<p>Look on the CC boards for the colleges that you list. Often you'll find old posts about multicultural weekends. You also can e-mail the colleges' admissions offices and ask if they offer those weekends.</p>
<p>I realize that, in context, the word should be considered benign, but the phrase "multicultural kids" gives me some discomfort. I know what the OP meant so this is not a criticism.</p>
<p>Diversity weekends/flyins:
Carleton
Dartmouth
Amherst (75% of those that attend & apply are accepted; free application if submitting FAFSA)
WUSTL (free application)
Kenyon
Cornell (only paid partially I think)
CMU (transportation in NE only)
Not sure about: Grinnell, Williams, Tufts, Wesleyan</p>
<p>thanks for your replies, and yes i know multicultural is not so cool of a term to use... i like the ALANA acronymn that some schools use.
thats good news for my URM friend that's first choice is swarthmore. i go to a predominantly white high school, i live in alabama, so i am quite used to a lack of diversity.</p>