<p>The driving factor concerning over-represented minorities and under-represented minorities is that diversity is valued. In the old days, prep schools were all upper class white students–mostly boys too. Efforts have been made to make the school population be more varied. It appears that if ethnicity were not taken into account, schools would be predominately Asian now. I am sorry when it impinges upon an individual’s chances but at the same time, diversity is one of the reasons I have sent my children to BS from our mostly lily-white state.</p>