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Course: College admissions > Unit 3
Lesson 3: College search: Other important choices- Comparing colleges based on financial aid policies
- Comparing colleges based on special focus or affiliation
- Comparing colleges based on diversity
- Comparing colleges based on location, size, and housing
- Comparing colleges based on campus activities
- Comparing colleges based on majors offered
- Student story: Prioritizing financial aid in the college search
- Student story: Prioritizing location in the college search
- Student story: Prioritizing financial aid, major, and location in the college search
- Student story: Prioritizing size, campus, major, and selectivity in the college search
- Student story: Prioritizing size, selectivity, diversity and financial aid in the college search
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Comparing colleges based on diversity
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- Why is diversity important in college?(3 votes)
- Diversity is important in college for the same reason it is important everywhere else in our society. Education should be available for all of humanity, regardless of race, gender, and such, just as housing and fair taxes should be available for everyone. Everyone needs an equal chance at getting accepted to a college; we need to all be based solely on our academic performance, instead of our skin color or cultural background. Diversity is really just another name for fairness and equal treatment - why would any institution not want to promote those values?(17 votes)
- I've heard that some universities (ex: Harvard) have different SAT quota for different races. Example: An Asian boy has to score 400 points more on his SAT than a Hispanic boy. How is this fair? While yes, I do understand why we need to have diverse schools to give every student an equal chance to graduate and get a good job and everything, how is it fair that some races get admission into top schools easier than other races?(4 votes)
- It's called "affirmative action" if you want to read more about it. :P It's so that colleges don't end up with a majority of just one ethnicity and have more diversity. But, I think it's ironic because that still requires some discrimination in order to fill the quotas.(7 votes)
- Does diversity include LGBTQ+ students?(2 votes)
- um... perhaps it could be but we dont know if they have one or not(2 votes)
- Still... not helpful... :( I really need more information on disabled students at college. Non-traditional students at college.(3 votes)
Video transcript
- Many colleges now, if not all, have information and what they call the demographics of
the student population. And that's important for you to look at, because that's one of the kind of scary transitioning to college is, "Gee, everybody is different from me." And that can be frightening. And you need that
support of other students who share your background. And you also want to know
as much as you can find out is how much the university or the college is putting resources
into supporting students from different backgrounds. So look into that. Find out if there's a diversity office. So find out if there are other
academic resources there. Find out how do they recruit students from different backgrounds. That all will give you indicators of how serious and
committed the college is about supporting students
from different backgrounds. And that becomes very, very important. You want to succeed
when you go to college, and one thing that will help you succeed is being in an environment
that supports you, who you are and your background.