question about nyt diversity #'s

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>in today's nytimes education life section are diversity statistics for about forty of the most diverse colleges. i am almost sure that princeton has a higher percentage of minorities than brown or cornell--and has the highest percentage of blacks in the ivy league--so why is the percentage of whites higher than every other school on the list? are there just more people at other schools who decline to identify their race? could that account for the rather big difference? do other schools have more multi-racial students? or are these numbers wrong? </p>

<p>percentage white (ivies and random other schools):</p>

<p>brown: 51%
columbia: 49%
cornell: 57%
duke : 56%
emory: 59%
harvard: 56%
mit: 36%
mount holyoke: 52%
nyu: 49%
princeton: 62%
rice: 54%
stanford: 41%
tufts: 57%
uchicago: 52%
yale: 51%</p>

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<p>perhaps it includes those students who identify as white along with another race.</p>

<p>it doesn't matter anyway...princeton is very diverse if you come here, it only looks about half white</p>

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<p>The NYT article also said that about 67% of Americans are white, which makes me wonder...</p>

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<p>Sljaeger, Princeton "only looks about half white?" What, do white people burn your eyes or something so you can't tolerate them in large numbers?
How about if I said "Come to my college, it only looks about half black, even though the percentage of blacks is 62."???</p>