<p>Which colleg embrace egalitarianism, that is equality of all races, genders, religions, sexualities and status the most? </p>
<p>Definition of Egalitarian: characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people.</p>
<p>What do you think is/are the most egalitarian college(s)?</p>
<p>I was listening to the radio and the debate came down to:</p>
<p>Oberlin
Eugene Lang
Wellesley (except for the all girls aspect)</p>
<p>Earlham. </p>
<p>It’s a Quaker school and Quaker values permeate the school — Earlham is all about egalitarianism, equality, and respect for others in a way that I haven’t yet found anywhere else.</p>
<p>Earlham among the privates; Berkeley (with a huge percentage of highly qualified low-income Pell Grant recipients) among the publics.</p>
<p>Haverford, Earlham, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Cornell are all Quaker schools, but what does that say for diversity, acceptance of gay community, political thought?</p>
<p>I’m just wondering what is distinctive about Earlham, b/c my boarding school is a quaker/shaker school as well, but to me that doesn’t say a lot.</p>
<p>Most top LACs are straining mightily to stay, or become more egalitarian. I would say that the Quaker schools are good bets, as are midwestern LACs like Carleton, Macalester and Grinnell.</p>
<p>cre8tive- What boarding school do you go to? I’ve never heard of a quaker boarding school in mass/ct/nh.</p>
<p>I attend Darrow School, founded by a sect of the Religious Society of Friends that eventually turned into the Shakers. Are school actually utilizes the old Shaker Village with only the interiors of the facilities updated.</p>
<p>Our library was the meeting house, our cafeteria, main auditorium, and gym stand on the original foundation of the Dairy Barm, all of the dorms are old buildings, my dorm was a cottage (walls still filled with hay), another dorm was the post offic, another dorm was the old washing house…</p>
<p>We are quite an interesting school, ranked #2 for community/interaction and personal attention, only 120 students.</p>
<p>I see. I know of Darrow but didn’t know it was quaker.</p>
<p>Religious Society of Friends, isn’t that Quaker? Also, it’s in New York</p>
<p>Is it true that at Earlham College students know all professors and administrators on a first name basis?</p>
<p>the Earlham thing about first names doesn’t sound out of the ordinary. I’m a Quake and this sounds reasonable…Earlham is a pretty small community too I think and that probably is a factor. Also when I visted St. Marys college of MD…its a state school …everyone was on first name basis from a freshman student to the Dean to the President. so…its not necessarily a Friend-culture thing…but more the atmosphere of the school.</p>
<p>Haverford, Earlham, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Cornell are all Quaker schools, but what does that say for diversity, acceptance of gay community, political thought?"</p>
<p>Actually, the only one of these that is still actively a Quaker school is Earlham. Cornell never was (it was a land-grant university); Johns Hopkins was a Friend, but the school was always non-sectarian. The others maintain some traditions from their Friendly days, but gave up the formal connections to Friends some decades ago. Guilford remains a Quaker school.</p>
<p>I think you’ll find Earlham “quirkier” than the others, and with a much larger proportion of foreign students, and a larger proportion of the student body involved in community service and who go abroad.</p>
<p>If you are looking for the two private schools with the highest degree of economic diversity in its student body, Smith and Occidental are well out in front of virtually everyone else.</p>
<p>Doesn’t Antioch belong on the list? I don’t know a lot about it, but what I’ve heard suggests this would fit its outlook.</p>
<p>Deep Springs College, despite the all male aspect. That school is so awesome.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a way to gauge actual “egalitarianism” or “acceptance” on a college campus, you might look at student leadership positions – student council, elected senior class graduation speakers, RAs, etc. – to see whether non-white, non-US, or gay students play an active role.</p>
<p>It has struck me that non-white students play leadership roles at my daughter’s school. RA’s on her hall. Two of the last three elected senior class speakers have been from Sri Lanka and India respectively. Both were student council leaders.</p>
<p>This is a way to dig a little deeper than the diversity statistics.</p>
<p>I think Interesteddad gave some great advice. Colleges provide lots of insight into their personality if you look close enough (not at the brochures which will all show amazing diverse students). When you visit the school check out the kids, the kids working, the kids in leadership positions, the dining hall (a biggy), and groups hanging out. In addition, lots of public info can provide some insight … for example, search on CC for Mini’s entries on the “entitlement index” which suggests schools that may be more or less economically diverse. Other schools have charters and missions that are inclusive … for example, Cornell accepted women and African Americans when it opened in the 1960s … lots of other shools show similar commitments.</p>
<p>I hope to repost the “entitlement indices” once I am able to find a good source for new Pell Grant numbers. (I doubt they’ll be much different than the old ones, though - colleges just don’t change very much year over year.)</p>
<p>But, I mean, those numbers don’t say much, that’s why I’m asking for your advice, Vanderbilt is very diverse economically and culturally, but what does that say for egalitarianism…nothing. I know I’d never go to Vandy, after seeing the social interaction there, I’d say it’s one of the worst places for any non-conformist, odd-ball, anyone that is a minority in multiple aspects, it felt more segregated than any school I’ve visted.</p>
<p>Who told you Vanderbilt is very diverse? It has the fourth highest “entitlement index” of any prestige university, with 60% of the student body receiving no need-based aid (meaning family incomes of a minimum of $150k, and a median much higher), and tiny percentage (8%) Pell Grant recipients (with family incomes under $40k.) The data I have on major universities show only Georgetown, Notre Dame, and Yale to be less diverse, “entitlement-wise”. (This says nothing about cultures, etc.)</p>
<p>Maybe I should see these numbers b/c when we met with the reps for Vandy at the NSBE Conference in Boston, they spoke for 20 minutes on their efforts for out reach into the lower class and black communities and that they have done a better job with first generation and low income students than any other school in the South, they fed us a lot of info, so on our way back from Emory we decided to stop for a few days in Nashville.</p>