@str8outtafolsom, things like this: https://www.princeton.edu/~naap/index.htm
Yes, they apparently have a Native club. Yippee. They list the officers from 2005-2006 (seems the club has been inactive since then. I’m also tired of seeing schools that list “powwows” as a way to show they are “with-it” with Natives, but that’s another story. Are they offering jazz/blues music to attract other minorities?)
Princeton does participate in College Horizons, so that’s a plus.
However, I don’t think schools realize how much their websites influence potential applicants, either for or against, particularly for kids who aren’t going to do that many school visits.
High achieving Native kids expect to start hearing from selective colleges as high school sophomores. Senior year is too late, especially if financial aid is necessary.
There is just not that many of these kids, so if you want them, you gotta go get 'em, and you need to convince them to take a chance on your school over another and show them the path to success. Even a lot of Native Gates Millennial Scholars go to local, non-selective schools and never apply to Ivies, even though the Ivies would love to have them. Why? It’s easier to get program information, connect to Native mentors, and most of the time they get terrible college advising locally. So they end up being elementary education majors or perhaps NA studies people, when they could succeed as policy wonks, or engineers, or physicists.
There’s a big disconnect between these kids and the programs, ESPECIALLY in the sciences. I don’t think most Ivies have any clue of how to recruit them, except maybe at the graduate level.
I’m starting to wonder if the Ivies have any interest, let alone clue, in recruiting them, with the notable exception of Cornell and maybe Dartmouth.