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<p>Perhaps this is a cynical viewpoint, but is it possible that most of the elite colleges’ idea of “diversity” includes an unspoken criterion: white students must be about half or more of the students?</p>
<p>The recent election seems to point to the idea that some older white people are uncomfortable with the idea of the US trending toward a situation where white people are no longer the majority of the population (e.g. extreme hostility toward non-white immigration among some of the candidates). Is it possible that most of the elite colleges may not want to rub it in their potential large wealthy donors’ (older, whiter, and probably more conservative than the general population) faces by having student bodies that are clearly majority non-white?</p>