re: Tulane in 2019 received 42,000 college applications for admission

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How s that struggling with diversity?
Caucasians make up about 70% of the population.

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In academia, if whites aren't a minority, you haven't diversified enough.

You have to be a pretty big dumbass to get rejected from LSU

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cheat the system for certain people based on their skin color.

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this has been going on for decades

Visited Tulane for a campus tour because one of my kids wanted to check it out. A couple of observations.

-during presentation to parents they put up the tuition which was about $56K. There was an audible gasp from the parents who were mostly upper middle class or above. This was 2011.

- At lunch a few current students sat at each table. During conversation they all stated they received partial scholarships and student aid. None were from Louisiana at my table.

My kids got there free shirts and never went back.

As a former Tulane student (full ride) and proud Delgado alumnus I can say these numbers don't mean much. Tulane has always had, on paper, a selective admissions number. The quality of its students, however, isn't much greater than Delgado's top students.

Tulane benefits from three things: it's in New Orleans, it's old, and its name is phonetically pleasing, unlike Emory, Baylor, Washington & Lee, The University of the South, and Wake Forrest. I would include the hunger inducing Rice, but Rice is a tier above Tulane. Make no mistake about it, for the nearly 90% of its student body who come from 300 miles plus away, Tulane is a backup school. Very few high school students go into the process with the notion, "I want to go to Tulane!"

Hidden in Tulane's "elite" numbers is the fact that significantly less than 50% of those admitted to the school enroll at the school. Compare this number to Harvard, who enrolled 82% of students it admitted.

Most rich Californians and Floridians who couldn't get into their flagship state universities have Tulane on their radar. Those rich NY and NJ kids who had no shot at Ivy and got rejected from the second tier of schools like NYU and Tufts, these are the ones who end up at Tulane. Had most of these students grown up in middle or lower class families and been educated in public school in Marrero or Grambling or Plaquemine, they'd be little different from the average LSU student.

Tulane is good for the city of New Orleans, even if they do not pay a fair shake with taxes. It provides good jobs, good health care, is a decent school, and helps put the love of the city in the heart of these out of towners. But it's not an elite academic institution. I'm prouder to say I went to Delgado than Tulane.

Pretty sure I didn't even send LSU all of my correct information and was still admitted

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How s that struggling with diversity?
Caucasians make up about 70% of the population

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Because if you consume any sort of media you would think that number would be more like 30%

Did Fil end up at Tulane?

College kids want to live in New Orleans. Really hard to believe

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While Fitts admitted that the school still struggles with diversity — data show that 69% of students at all of Tulane's schools combined are Caucasian — the school is increasing access, he said.

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Considering that the USA is made up of 72% whites, 28% the rest (Black, Latino, Asian, etc) that seems like they are not struggling with diversity. Actually seems that they are diverse if it is 69% white when the total US population is about 72% white.

Way to go Tulane!