@Zinhead so 100% of Jewish undergraduates graduate from college? None go to community college?
Concordia College (Moorhead), like many schools, draws from the students in its region, which in this instance, are the states in the Northern Plains. Take a look at the demographics of the surrounding states (2010 Census data, from Wikipedia):
MN: 86.9% Caucasian
ND: 90%
SD: 85.7%
MT: 89.4
WY: 90.7
IA (not quite Northern Plains, but Midwest): 91.3%
So, at 83% Caucasian, Concordia is actually more diverse than its surrounding environment.
Is that a Top 50 National University?
That might scare off full pay white families 
Which brings me to a question. Is this number a proxy for something that families are trying to measure but are too embarrassed or ashamed to just ask?
For example: if the percentage of white students at a University is below x% then it means “YYYY” or if it is greater than “x%” it means “ZZZZ”
For example, I had a neighbor who used the % of Asian students at a high school as a proxy of whether or not he would be happy sending his kid to that school. He used it as a proxy for level of “stress” and hyper competitiveness at the school. Higher the Asian percentage, higher the stress level or competitiveness at the school according to his formula.
I’m not sure if it has to do with stress level, but demographics is something we look at. Some of the UC’s, such as Irvine and Davis, my daughter is looking at are well over 50% Asian, percentages of whites are as low as 15%, same for hispanics (we are Hispanic/white) percentages of African Americans are nearly zero. My daughter is going to have to decide if she likes an environment with such a lack of diversity. These schools claim to be diverse, but if they’re mostly a single race is that really diversity?
Asians are a single race?
There is no such thing as race, just boxes on a government mandated check list.
I believe in terms of college applications asians are considered a single race, yes. I’ve never seen an app where it asks if one is Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, or Pakistani. There is caucasian, not of hispanic origin, african american, not of hispanic origin, hispanic/latino, pacific islander, native american, and that’s about all I’ve ever seen as far as categorizations.
So a classification that represents over 60% of the world’s population is not diverse? Do they all look and sound alike as well?
@hebegebe I’m not sure what your purpose is in baiting me? Is the term “Asian” suddenly not politically correct? Do we differentiate African Americans between Sudanese, Ethiopian, Nigerian, etc? Are Caucasian Europeans categorized as Irish, Swedish, Russian Americans on application forms? Not last time I checked. Asians make up 4.7% of the populations of this country, so colleges with well over 50% of their students from that one demographic group seem diverse to you? If an African American student walked through the campus at UCI, UCD, UCSD would it seem diverse, would it feel welcoming and homey? Would he see students like himself there? Not likely. My hispanic child… (do I need to specify Mexican, Nicaraguan, Ecuadorian???) isn’t sure she felt comfortable at UCI, she saw very few faces like her own there, it didn’t feel very diverse at all. A question was asked and I answered, don’t try to make me out to be a racist.
Some schools do have boxes for Puerto Rican or Mexican under the Hispanic category.
UCs do track different Asian and Latino ethnicities, although different campuses differ in which groups they break out in reports. For example:
http://www.oir.uci.edu/files/enr/IIA07-enr-by-ethnicity.pdf?R=898020
http://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data
http://bap.ucsb.edu/institutional.research/campus.profiles/campus.profiles.2015.16.pdf
My point is the poster above me is apparently taking issue with my referring to Asians as a demographic, I’m not understanding what the problem is? I’ve never once been offended by being called Hispanic or Latino, that is the larger group I belong to and to which my country of origin is included.
Seems that a school that has the same percentages, but swapped around such that the “over 50%” group was white (e.g. http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg06_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=666 ), people would not be complaining about lack of ethnic diversity. Perhaps there is an unstated expectation that white students should be the majority, or at least the plurality, group among the undergraduate students.
Based on my son’s personal experience I absolutely disagree with your characterization of WashU . I can’t imagine what more they could have done to convince him to attend. They invest a huge amount of money and resources into attracting top URMs. I dare to say that their efforts are unsurpassed by any other school.
Lehigh should probably be on your the top 50 National Universities (at least based on USN).
Lehigh reported being 62% white this year. They have been gradually working that number lower over time, and would probably like to continue to do so.
The issue I have is that you are saying Asians are not diverse. The racial classification “Asian” includes the original Caucasians from Iran, the Dravidians of south India, and the Mongoloids that inhabit east Asia. Among the Mongoloids, the Japanese are nothing like the Chinese, and neither are like the Indians or Iranians. I wouldn’t presume to say that all Hispanic people are alike, but most share a common language and come from a common culture so in that sense are much more alike than the groups I mentioned above.
So if a school is predominantly Caucasian, but they have Russian Americans, German Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, etc… you’d consider that diverse? I don’t think so. All different languages, religions, cultures, yet in the scheme of things considered “white” Americans.
Yes, that is real diversity if they bring their culture to campus and welcome others into it. Diversity is about learning about others and being welcomed for being yourself. It is not about having the right skin tones for a brochure.
At UC Irvine North Africans are not included in the numbers of Asian students. The population of Asian students are predominately Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese with Filipino, and Thai represented, some Indian/Pakistani, very few Japanese. The numbers of whites, African Americans, and Hispanics are far lower than the general population of our state and our country. That doesn’t make it a bad school by any means, but it doesn’t make it a diverse school either. I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that there’s a “right skin tone for a brochure” or that anyone in this thread, let alone me, said that all Asians looked and sounded alike. You clearly have your own biases.