<p>As an earlier poster noted, Notre Dame students are about as ethnically diverse as the population in general, with Asians over-represented and blacks/Hispanics somewhat under-represented. As for ideological diversity, my guess is that student views are also fairly representative of the larger population, but with a greater balance between conservative and liberal voices than one would find at a comparably selective but secular school such as Northwestern or Duke. (Those schools are, of course, much less ideologically diverse than Notre Dame, but few diversity bean counters seem to care about anything other than skin color and, perhaps, household income). Way back in 2008, the student body was evenly split between Obama and McCain, which would not have been the result at any other top 25 school. Yes, the student body is overwhelmingly Catholic, but students here know that many of those Catholics are only nominally so, and, in any event, Catholics as a group poll pretty much the same as Americans in general.</p>