<p>Thank you all for your thoughts. My child is applying to college this year. We live in a very integrated community and are a racially blended family. l grew up the same way. Going to a college that has diversity but no true integration would be very harsh. During my own college hunt, I visited Williams and Amherst and was shocked by the segregation. (Before everyone pounces, Amherst back then was not the colorful place it is now.) To continue to live as I wanted I felt I had two choices: Stanford and Brown. When looking at colleges now I can’t help but look for groupings in the pictures and on campus. I was disappointed to see solid color groupings still at Williams, Colgate, Northwestern, and Wash U. There seems to be more than the usual level of unhappiness at Carleton and Duke. What does “more than usual” mean? It means that people in the community feel that the campus racial relationships are more negative than they expect, thus I used the term " notable". I asked this question to guage the racial reputations of schools - because I don’t believe the situation is the same everywhere. For those of us seeking to flee the sadness of exclusion and diminishment, environment matters and every uptick in pleasantness is worth its weight in gold. Again, thank you for responding.</p>