<p>It’s good that Bowdoin has a multi-racial category. Most colleges do not. The surge in Hispanic students and the addition of a multi-racial category is a fairly recent occurence. I see that it is in the 2010-2011 Data. As recently as 2009-2010, the stats on race groups was pretty much what I listed. It appears that with the addition of the multi-racial category, the number of Asians and blacks has declined while the number of Hispanics/Latinos has climbed. Without seeing the breakdown of multi-racials, it’s hard to say which non-white/Hispanic group is largest. It does make me wonder about the whole multi-racial category, because most Caribbean-origin Hispanics, which is most Hispanics on the east coast, are in fact racially mixed themselves, but they don’t identify as multi-racial. Interesting.</p>