<p>It’s hard to judge from the article, but, based on what I’ve heard and seen at other colleges, it isn’t entirely about race. There’s a woeful lack of middle-class, city raised kids from public and parochial schools, the kind who have already been heavily schooled in racial and ethnic good sense and who can act as a brake on their richer, less acculturated friends. It’s an unfortunate fact that a lot of these families have been scared away by the sticker prices of these otherwise fine private colleges.</p>