<p>I've seen plenty of things on the net about people talking about Tulane's lack of racial diversity. However the stats I've seen said that the african american enrollment is between 8-10%. I understand that doesn't necessarily make the campus "diverse", but I guess my question is how would an AA student fit in @ Tulane and do you notice black and white students (along w/ other races) getting along and hanging out together? (Talking specifically about the campus, I know that NOLA itself has a high % of AAs)</p>
<p>highflyin - I really have no clue how you’d feel on campus. One thing I have observed in my travels is AAs from the Bronx, Northern Virginia and New Orleans aren’t the same at all … never mind individual differences within a single area. Based on that one observation alone, it would be rank speculation to suggest how you’d feel. I think you need to visit … and I’d make that recommendation whether we were discussing Tulane, Emory, WashU or any other private school. Best of luck with your college search.</p>
<p>I remember responding to a thread last year about this issue, and I will try and find it. But in general I looked at Tulane versus similar schools in the south like Vandy, Emory and Duke, and Tulane had the highest % of AA, almost twice as I recall. Where Tulane had way less was Asians. Duke was like 20%, Tulane was nowhere near that. I am pretty sure there was a higher % of AA at Tulane than any other minority.</p>
<p>Maybe I am clueless on this topic, but I sure think that almost no one at Tulane cares if you are white, black, yellow, or purple. If you are a nice, respectful person that likes to have fun, you will make friends. It was like that many years ago when I was there, so I have to believe it is even more strongly that way now.</p>
<p>OK, here is what I said on a past thread about this same topic, and it appears to still hold. Interestingly, NewHope was the previous poster then too, lol.
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<p>So looking at that same site now, I think the data has not been updated. Tulane is listed as having 9% AA. I was incorrect in my recollection in post #3, Duke has 10% AA, Emory 10%, Vanderbilt 9%, U Chicago 6%, WUSTL 10%, Wake Forest 7%, UMiami 8% (relatively huge Hispanic enrollment here, no surprise), Boston College 6%, and I could go on. Hispanic enrollments, except as noted, don’t vary widely either. Chicago was one of the higher ones at 9%, but then they lagged in AA enrollment. So usually the biggest difference between Tulane and schools of similar size and ROUGHLY the same academically (again trying to avoid fights that distract from the topic) is usually a decrease in the % of whites because of a higher percentage of asian students. Otherwise these schools tend to look pretty much the same, except for the one located in a very high % Hispanic general population. I threw in a couple of midwest schools and a northeast school that have a high degree of cross application with Tulane, just to show this is not a southern school thing.</p>
<p>Therefore people saying Tulane isn’t as diverse racially are technically correct, but it isn’t because of the AA population or Hispanic population or lack thereof. Tulane is virtually identical to its peer institutions in that regard. The big difference is the Asian population at the school, and I will leave it to each prospective student to decide if that constitutes the increased diversity they are looking for. Because otherwise these schools look pretty similar, except for U Miami.</p>
<p>I can’t directly answer your question, but consider the fact that the majority of Tulane students are from 600+ miles away with a heavy concentration of students from the Northeast. </p>
<p>The fact that these students are open to attending a School in New Orleans would seem to imply that they are open to dealing with cultural and ethnic diversity. In fact, if you read through the threads on this forum, this seems to be a major reason students consider Tulane.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies…fallenchemist that’s exactly what I was wondering thanks.</p>