<p>"I'm not sure what IPEDS data you were looking at, but I checked the actual Swat PhDs by race from 1999-2003 compare to actual graduations by race from 1990-1994."</p>
<p>Check the Williams Diversity report (Chart 30 - Rate of Doctoral Achievement within Race). 23.5% of whites at Swat go on to Ph.Ds, 10.5% of Asians. (By the way, at Carleton, it is even more extreme, at 18.8% and 4.9% respectively; at Harvard it is 22.7% and 14.7%. There is ONE school, however, where that is strongly reversed: Mount Holyoke, at 9.4% and 18.4%; it is higher there for African-Americans than for whites as well - 9.6% v. 9.4% (I'd be willing to bet that -- numbers being small -- this is almost totally due to a single professor, and now President of Spellman Bev Tatum).</p>
<p>But let's be honest - at Swat like most of the rest of these schools - more (usually far more) students go on to become schoolteachers and social workers (and businesspeople) than go on to become college professors. If SWAT (or you) or Reed or wherever truly wanted to be descriptive, shouldn't we be focusing on rates of MSWs, MATs, and/or MBAs?</p>