A dear friend of my daughter’s, African-American girl from Brooklyn, NYC had this kind of experience at Vanderbilt during her freshman year. She was a star at their high school, a test-in, majority-Asian (as are most of the elite high schools in NYC) public school, not only academically but socially as well–president of the senior class with 1300 students. It’s been difficult for her to find her tribe at Vanderbilt.