Which Ivy League school is the most diverse?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Of course, there are different ways to measure diversity - but I'm interested in opinions on this.</p>

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<p>from my visits: Harvard. but keep in mind i'm simply an outsider looking in ;)</p>

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<p>Harvard for sure -- diversity is practically a badge of honor there -- though I've only been to Yale and Harvard, my wife to Cornell and my bro in law to Wharton.</p>

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<p>Consider that every university seeks diversity, but there are fewer minority candidates to go around. Being at the top of the food chain, Harvard can get most of the top students it wants from every conceivable minority applicant pool.</p>

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<p>hmm, USNWR has a few tables of this (pages 39-40 for those of you with hard copies).</p>

<p>The criterion it uses for economic diversity is the number of students receiving Pell grants, where the rank goes like this:</p>

<p>top: UCLA, UCB
1) Columbia, 15%
2) Cornell, 14%
= Dartmouth, 14%
[insert: CalTech, MIT, Stanford, others]
4) Brown, 11%
= Harvard, 11%
= Penn, 11%
= [Chicago]
[others]
7) Yale, 9%
= Princeton, 7%
[others]</p>

<p>None of the ivies make the list for the highest racial diversity, although Stanford, UCLA, MIT, UCB, and USC (in that order) do make the list.</p>

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<p>cornell - you have a farmer from some small rural town sitting next to an engineer from chile. cornell i think is the most diverse in terms of its interests, having very unique schools, along with powerhouses in arts & sciences and engineering schools.</p>

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<p>It depends on what diversity you're talking about:</p>

<p>Economic diversity?
Ideological diversity?</p>

<p>And if you're talking about racial/cultural diversity, there is the issue of to which degree the races interact..</p>

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<p>^ Again, ilovebagels nails the critical question which makes the line of inquiry of this thread vague and ambiguous at best. Good work for once you Fightin' Quaker!</p>

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<p>^ Good work for once? :confused: :)</p>

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<p>The economic diversity numbers for the Ivys will change drastically with the new no loan policies.... lots of economically challenged families who sent their kids to community college, or state college can now send their kids to Harvard for much less.</p>

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<p>Haha, oh the folly of the "Quaker". Don't boil over on me because I like my oatmeal on the thin side thank you kindly. </p>

<p>@DunninLA: Which in a way makes incoming students and the administration less dependent upon Pell Grants.</p>

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<p>i would say cornell just cause of its size. you have the big dumb jocks and the smart nerdy kids.</p>