<p>“While I was there, a few other people who were there for MVP were told by current students to not go there unless it was because of financial aid.” - donaperfecta</p>
<p>Can you say more about this? It sounds like a negative attitude by some URM students. Or something we may have overlooked in our evaluation of the college? I’m curious about the reason(s). Were they expecting a strong social focus on black/Latino culture and didn’t find it? Was it boredom because they wished they were in a more urban environment? I’m very interested to know why some felt this way. My D is a URM (she’s biracial) but was not part of the MVP. We visited twice on our own. Most of the URMs must’ve been part of MVP, because during our visits we saw very few URMs around. This isn’t a problem for my D, because she was raised in a 99% white environment. Okay, maybe only 98%. She has demonstrated no problems fitting socially or adapting within a overwhelmingly non-diverse, in terms of race/ethnicity, environment. She went to her prom yesterday with the white kid who won out over a long line of white boys who competed for months to take her out. </p>
<p>At the same time, I think she would be disappointed to arrive at Oberlin and learn there were “issues” with the URMs on campus. She takes great pride in her diverse heritages. All of them.</p>