<p>Cangel:</p>
<p>Although all four are excellent schools, my concern with Kenyon, Middlebury, Sewannee, and Davidson is that they all cater to an extremely white, wealthy, customer base. Not just a little bit. These are four of the whitest schools in the country.</p>
<p>I think that, being Asian-American and coming from a farm community in California with a heavy Hispanic population, these schools could be culturally jarring. When I attended a white and wealthy elite college back in the stone age, the students who struggled the most (not academically) were students from lower socio-economic communities. Several left and few ever felt like they really fit in. So, I’m sensitive to that issue.</p>
<p>An Asian-American from a wealthy prep school, growing up in Pacific Palisades? Fine, no problem. But, Fresno is a different world than some of these schools.</p>