Her school is an engineering school and has a lot of foreign students who add diversity. The school doesn’t give enough in scholarships to cover the difference (about $40k difference from public COA). My daughter was really looking for a school where her race wouldn’t be an issue and I think she found one. When I’ve been on campus, I just don’t notice all the different races or ethnic groups. They just all look like college students to me.
Many states in the south have HBCU which pull the black students from other public schools, so the numbers get skewed to more whites at the flagships than the state racial make up would support. FSU has 32k students, but only 8% are black. However, FAMU has 8k students and 90% are black. The two schools share many facilities, and there is also a community college sharing too, so the number of black students in the area is a lot higher than FSU’s 8%.