<p>Perhaps I should have stopped after the rankings by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. ;)</p>
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<p>In that you would be absolutely on the right track. I think you’ll find that the administrators of all three of these institutions attempt to set a tone of openness and respect for others while still trying to make sure that their institutions don’t stifle debate or suppress socially unpopular views. It’s a very difficult balance to achieve.</p>
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<p>In this, you would be absolutely wrong. I’m certainly not “glad” and she might be making a mistake. Like Princeton, Yale and many other peer schools, Harvard is a fine institution and would offer your daughter tremendous opportunities. There’s no harm in applying. One of the problems with unavoidably short college campus visits is that prospective students can come away with incorrect assumptions about the students and their lives on campus. I was accepted to all three of these institutions, attended Princeton as an undergraduate and decided on Harvard for law school. As an alumnus of the first two, I’m quite familiar with them. I’ve obviously spent less time at Yale but still know it reasonably well from friends and colleagues. I would encourage your daughter to consider applying to all three unless she truly feels that she would be uncomfortable at one or more of them.</p>
<p>As for our friend Natsherman, I think you’ll be able to answer your own question by reviewing his previous posts both here on the Princeton board and over on the Yale board. This thread was started for the obvious and sole purpose of reinforcing long outdated stereotypes. My poking back a little at Nat was simply a response. That having been said, you were absolutely correct to call me out on the article from 1968. Had I noticed the age of that article I certainly would not have posted it in this context and am now embarrassed that this slipped by me! I think you will notice, however, that most of the articles I posted are within the last decade and relate to incidents that are both current and relevant. The events were serious and resulted in much soul-searching on both the Harvard and Yale campuses. I don’t think you’ll find anything quite so newsworthy at Princeton during this same period of time though I’m sure there are racist incidents on the Princeton campus as well. On this topic, here’s a very interesting story questioning whether young people today are truly “post-racial”.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/us/colorblind-notion-aside-colleges-grapple-with-racial-tension.html?_r=0”>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/us/colorblind-notion-aside-colleges-grapple-with-racial-tension.html?_r=0</a></p>
<p>Finally, one more independent voice evaluating the campus climate for minority students. (This one’s for Nat. 
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<p>Here is Hispanic Magazine’s most recent ranking of the “Top 25 Colleges for Hispanics”. (I believe they no longer rank in terms of climate and have now replaced this ranking with one based almost entirely on the percentage of Hispanic undergraduates at each institution.)</p>
<p>2010 Hispanic Magazine</p>
<p>“Top 25 Colleges for Hispanics”</p>
<p>1—Princeton
2—Harvard
3—Yale
4—Williams
5—Amherst
6—MIT
7—Stanford
8—Swarthmore
9—Columbia
10-U. of Chicago</p>
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