The foreground looks similar to Davenport. The background, not so much. hehe
Lovely campus.
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I think Middletownâs only known deer hunter must have chosen that moment to photobomb.
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With the help of a recent NYT interactive chart, Iâm reviving the discussion of the post-Supreme Court diversity outcomes in the last admissions cycle. the survey covered 66 highly selective colleges including 8 NESCACs (Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Connecticut, Middlebury, Tufts, Wesleyan University and Williams):
Percent change in YTY African-American first-year enrollment:
Conn College +2.5
Bowdoin +1.1
Williams +0.7
Bates +0.7
Wesleyan -0- change
Middlebury -2.4
Tufts -2.5
Amherst -8.9
Hispanic first-years:
Bates +5.0
Conn +2.5
Bowdoin +2.5
Wesleyan +1.9
Tufts +1.1
Williams +1.1
Middlebury -1.1
Amherst -4.6
Asian first-years:
Amherst +2.5
Tufts -0.6
Bates -0.8
Williams -0.9
Conn -1.2
Wesleyan -1.4
Middlebury -3.5
Bowdoin -4.5
White first-years:
Middlebury +10.0
Amherst +7.0
Bowdoin +4.0
Tufts +2.5
Williams -2.0
Wesleyan -3.6
Bates -4.4
Conn -6.7
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I would add that a key piece of data was that the percentage of students who did not provide race went up significantly, as much as the changes by race, 2.1 pts overall:
Amherst +6.3
Tufts +3.4
Wesleyan +2.8
Conn +2.3
William +1.1
Bowdoin +0.4
Middlebury -0.2
Bates -0.7
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Bates looking good!
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Middlebury looks like an outlier across the board. I wonder what they did differently?
Really? Amherst is the one that jumped out to me. I am not surprised, since there was such a HUGE emphasis on racial diversity there. My son was an athletic recruit, and the coach placed a big emphasis on being nonwhite. To the point that when the coach learned of my sonâs middle eastern ethnicity the (assistant) coach point blank asked âcould that be considered Asian? Do you identify as Asian?â. (My son did not).
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I noticed Amherst as well and it is true that they were very active in using recruiting to help with diversity. Iâm not sure if it was still a practice at the time of the ruling (probably was given your comment on name) but at one time diversity was expected in recruiting.
The piece that stood out for Midd to me is that they were the only school that went down in every category except white. Amherst had bigger drops in some categories like African-American but Asian went up. Midd was uniform which stood out to me.
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Middlebury and Amherst. The rumor for years has been that the latter admitted an inordinate number of African American prep school graduates (EDIT: Blacks who can afford to spend money on helmet sport competition might fall into the same category.) I wonder if that handicapped them when it came time to write about overcoming hardships in their essays?
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I think Bates has overall done a good job in recent years of increasing diversity, especially considering its endowment. Itâs worth noting that in the 2022 cycle, they were top in a survey of selective LACs for increasing AA enrollment over the previous year. Bates #1 LAC in increasing enrollment of AA students over previous year
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What did Middlebury do differently? It looks like they didnât give preference to URMs.
That seems pretty clear in the data but without seeing this data I would have expected the results to be similar to Amherst. A rise in the numbers for Asian applicants as well as white.
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Actually, Amherst is the outlier here. They are the only NESCAC (among those surveyed) to show a post-Supreme Court increase in Asian students.
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For those interested in such things, note that these represent percentage point changes. The percentage changes would be substantially greater.
I kind of wish Davidson had been included in the survey (if it was, I didnât spot it), because itâs another college known to combine its sports recruitment with recruitment of black students. It would be interesting to see whether its numbers for various racial groups have been affected by the Supreme Court decision in SFA v. Harvard.
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Middlebury has named a new presidentâIan Baucom, who is currently executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia and the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English.
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My alma mater, UVA. Great. #WAHOOWA
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Bates, Harvard, Richmond added to Questbridge (55 colleges now in program). Bates College Teams with QuestBridge to Enhance Access for Low-income Students
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That means that all of the NESCAC colleges, except Connecticut College, are now Questbridge partners. Connecticut College is, however, a Posse partner college. Middlebury is both a QB and a Posse Partner college (Midd has three Posse cohorts, which is only matched by U Wisconsin).
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