It's the anthro, JL.
It's like, the Matrix. You can't ever look at anything the same way again.
I'm sorry joe, but you said eventually as if to imply that I was avoiding the question. I wasn't. I was busy.
When I originally responded to this, I posted some quotes from college websites about what they expected out of a diverse student body. Then my browser crashed. Luckily, those sites are still out there, and you can find them yourself.
Interestingly, when schools talk about diversity, they don't mention test scores, or academic acheivements, or anything like that - they talk about students from different cultures and backgrounds meeting each other and getting world experience. In fact, if you'd applied to a college in the past like 10 years or so, as I understand it (and I realize you haven't) you'd see all kinds of admissions staff talking about how much more they now value diversity of background and how much less test scores and grades count for. Obviously they still count for something, but the focus has shifted.
While the diversity standards do mention race, they also mention a lot of other things. You don't tend to see as much effort being put into those other things though.
