<p>My D is a Latina and will be graduating in her predominantly white, Catholic school as Valedictorian. My question is: Are U Penn students sophisticated enough to understand diversity issues and minority issues as pertaing to the individual... my daugher is an individual first who is extremely intelligent and interesting, but first glance, a beauttiful Latina, totally foscused on her studies rather than stupid sexual hooks. Will she be treated as an individual scholar at Penn?</p>
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<p>UPenn seems to be very racially diverse with close to 43% non-white.</p>
<p>As do virtually all–if not all–top schools, Penn prides itself on the diversity of its student body. There are literally thousands of minority students from an incredibly wide variety of backgrounds, each pursuing his or her own interests in a welcoming and supportive environment. In the 21st century, Penn couldn’t possibly hope to be academically competitive with its peers it this were not the case.</p>
<p>The short answers to your questions are yes and yes, without reservation. Don’t worry about it. She won’t be the only beautiful woman at Penn, either, or the only beautiful woman there who knows how to get her work done. And she will have academically successful Latino/a peers, too – something that may not have happened in high school.</p>
<p>Something interesting that’s going on right now, effectively. For years Philadelphia had a much smaller Hispanic population than comparable cities elsewhere, especially New York, and it was almost exclusively Puerto Rican. Over the past 5-10 years, however, the Hispanic presence in the city has grown a lot, and has shifted, too, to include many more people from Mexico, Central America, and South America (including Brazil). We may still be the least Hispanic large city in the country – certainly a lot less than New York, LA, Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix – but the amount of Hispanic culture in Philadelphia is triple or quadruple what it was 5-6 years ago, and not exclusively Caribbean.</p>