<p>Is it true that Vandy gives favoritism / more preference to Asians? One of my friends who applied told me this so i wanted to clarify. Also hows the diversity at Vandy? Some people have told me that most races are segregated by ethnicity and many do not mesh "together".</p>
<p>I don't know who they favor but I have noticed and my D has said that there is a fair amount of self-segregation on campus. I'm quite sure you will find self-segregation on all campuses.</p>
<p>Yeah I heard the biggest groups they wanted to increase enrollment in were Latinos and Asians. How true is this?</p>
<p>One hundred percent true. Vanderbilt has about the same Asian percentage as some other SEC schools. When you compare that to academic peers, it's ridiculous. This is due to the perceived notion that there is a good deal of subtle racism on Vanderbilt's campus. Visit and decide for yourself.</p>
<p>AA tier at Vandy:
Asian
Jew
Hispanic
Native American
Black
White</p>
<p>There is self-segregation on every campus and anyone who tells you otherwise either goes to a school full of White liberals with the exact same background, therefore implicitly self-segregated, or is just a liberal liar anyway. Vanderbilt has less than schools like Emory which are very cliquey. Fact. Visit, decide for yourself.</p>
<p>i heard Vandy no longer gives preference to Jews. is this true?</p>
<p>People tend to gravitate toward others with whom they have something in common ... that may be a common heritage, a particular social status, or anything else that is important in their lives. In addition, when there are small numbers of a particular group, it can be intimidating & people in that group may choose to stick together.</p>
<p>Self segregation does exist everywhere. I can tell you, though, that there is a difference between Asians who were born in Asia or otherwise have a very strong sense of Asian identity & those who consider themselves as American as the next guy. Also, if an African American student was raised in a diverse area, he is likely to identify more with folks who share common interests than with other AA students simply because they are also AA. Heck, white people often self segregate according to their backgrounds, too. </p>
<p>It's the people who are open to the possibilities that they may have something in common with those who are "different" than themselves who are able to discover that there are terrific people of every persuasion (rich, poor, black, white, Asian, European, whatever).</p>
<p>Why is such preference given? I mean if you go by the percentage of U.S. Population that Jews make up (2%), then there should be around 30 Jews enrolling each year to Vanderbilt, am I correct? That's just straight numbers. I don't want to seem anti-Semitic, but again, why are they so interested in getting such a tiny ethnic/religious group to attend?</p>
<p>They want, for some absolutely ridiculous reason, to get Northeasterns to think that Vanderbilt is the place to be.</p>
<p>Vandy is the only school I know of that actually has AA favoring Asians, believe it or not. Diversity does seem to be a major weak point</p>
<p>Does this favor things apply only for undergrad or graduate student as well? :D</p>
<p>I don't see the diversity stats on the program Im looking into at Vanderbilt, but that at Boston College or Univ of San Fran, the majority (61% at Boston) are Asian.</p>
<p>It'll be so awesome to be the favorred ones, given the fact that I'm Asian :D</p>
<p>vandy loves me...i got accepted and then rejected them...suckas....</p>
<p>I have a son who is entering his junior year at Emory and a high school senior daughter who is considering applying to Vanderbilt. Sadly, the attitudes displayed in this thread may cause me to discourage her interest.</p>
<p>yeah honestly this thread is ridiculous. i just graduated from vandy and the majority of the posters on this thread are far more immature than i ever saw anyone on campus. </p>
<p>i am not going to lie and say that there is 100% integration at vanderbilt. but id love to know of any college campus where it exists. as one of the OPs mentioned, i think self-segregation is a big part of it at vu. a lot of the international students in particular obviously have more than just differences in skin color. </p>
<p>my group was a good mix of people in terms of race, ethnicity, and even geographic background. the people i stayed closest with after 4 years were the people i met in my dorm freshman year and people i met in my major. neither of those criteria had anyhting to do with race.</p>
<p>Diversity isn't some big issue on Vanderbilt's campus. I am an alum and I happen to be a white southerner but of my six best friends from college, one is Indian and one is black and their hometowns range from Boston to nowhere Ohio. As VandyManiac said, it's all about who you end up living close too and having classes with. There is some self segregation that happens on any campus but it is certainly not a problem.</p>
<p>Are there any Northeasterners out here who can comment on the whole self-segragation thing. Im from NY and in most places youll see groups of friends with people of all ethnicities and races. When i went to virginia and Georgia it was completely different and i really didnt like it. I mean people say it not a big deal but in the places ive gone you can definitely sense the racial tension, but it may have just been the places ive visited. btw im hispanic</p>
<p>Native New Yorker here. There are a LOT of New Yorkers at Vandy but not city people. It's mostly people from... Long Island. Self-segregation can be seen at every school but it is even more apparent at Vanderbilt because there aren't that many minorities to begin with. At least the school is working towards that...</p>
<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>Brad here. For those of you who don't know me, I work in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and hang out on College Confidential exclusively to answer any questions you may have and to dispel any inaccurate information...like in this thread for instance:</p>
<p>Just to put the tired rumor to rest:</p>
<p>Vanderbilt does NOT give preference to Jewish students in the admissions process. </p>
<p>Best wishes from Nashville,
Brad</p>
<p>Theres alot of Vanderbilt people from NYC (but almost all of them are from Manhattan, very few people from Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn, etc). There are also lots of kids from the North Shore of LI and Westchester.</p>
<p>realize however that the college is changing dramatically.
regarding Vandy's aggressive minority-geared AA policy, I think it is fighting a stereotype/perception more than it is fighting an actual problem. take this with a grain of salt</p>
<p>I just graduated from Vanderbilt and I disagree with the previous Vandy alums that have posted here. The level of self-segregation I saw here far exceeded anything I had seen before--and was much more apparent than it was, for example, at my cousin's college, Notre Dame. It bothered me, but it didnt cloud my college experience entirely: I still rate it as the best four years of my life.
Obviously this is something that will take time to change--and in the time I was here, I was already beginning to see improvements.</p>