EDITED TO ADD: Ooops, thought I was in a St. Olaf thread. Feel free to ignore the below. Per this method of calculation, for comparison’s sake, Washington and Lee’s white share was 76.1%.
I went to IPEDS and grabbed 2023 data then calculated: (White Non-Hispanic undergrads) / (Total Undergrads - Internationals - Ethnicity “Unknown”).
Out of the 126 schools with Carnegie code 21 that were not also HBCUs, St. Olaf was on the high side (#77 out of 126), but not the highest. Here are the Midwest LACs and the share of each school’s domestic students (whose ethnicity is known) that is non-Hispanic white:
- Carleton (MN): 58.7%
- Lake Forest (IL): 59.7%
- Macalester (MN): 60.1%
- Albion (MI): 61.1%
- Knox (IL): 62.9%
- Kalamazoo (MI): 65.0%
- Grinnell (IA): 65.4%
- Oberlin (OH): 69.4%
- Coe (IA): 69.7%
- Lawrence (WI): 70.5%
- Augustana (IL): 71.3%
- Wheaton (IL): 71.8%
- Wooster (OH): 71.9%
- Denison (OH): 74.1%
- St. Olaf (MN): 74.5%
- Kenyon (OH): 74.7%
- Cornell (IA): 75.0%
- Wittenberg (OH): 75.6%
- DePauw (IN): 75.7%
- Saint Mary’s (IN): 78.4%
- Ohio Wesleyan (OH): 78.7%
- Aquinas (MI): 80.9%
- Hope (MI): 81.9%
- St. Benedict (MN): 82.2%
- St. John’s (MN): 82.5%
- Concordia (MN): 83.4%
- Hanover (IN): 83.9%
- Gustavus Adolphus (MN): 84.3%
- Luther (IA): 85.0%
- Wartburg (IA): 86.5%
- St. Norbert (WI): 87.9%
- Central (IA): 89.8%