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Best Schools with Diverse Student Bodies

Post by drizzle12 » Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:21 pm

Does anybody know of the best law schools with diverse student bodies? Looking through some of the threads it seems like there are a couple of law schools that boast pretty good diversity numbers but it doesn't necessarily show when you're on campus. I currently go to a smaller school for UG (about 10,000 students) and it is about 94% white. As an AA student I want to go to a law school with visible diversity and active diversity groups on campus.

I am interested in hearing about Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Michigan, UC Berkeley, Duke, UCLA, and USC but any discussion/input on any school is welcome. I'm sure other students, especially URM students, may have similar questions. My apologies if this has been asked before.

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Re: Best Schools with Diverse Student Bodies

Post by 20130312 » Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:22 pm

I'd prefer curvy student bodies :wink:

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Re: Best Schools with Diverse Student Bodies

Post by drizzle12 » Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:24 pm

Hahaha, yeah I knew that looked funny when I wrote the subject but I couldn't think of a better way to put it.

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Re: Best Schools with Diverse Student Bodies

Post by cutecarmel » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:44 pm

LOL. I'm thinking "what do curves have to do with anything" :P

Anyways, you didn't mention it but Cornell really strives for diversity at their school.
InGoodFaith wrote:I'd prefer curvy student bodies :wink:

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Re: Best Schools with Diverse Student Bodies

Post by Thurgreat marshall » Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:25 pm

I've heard anecdotally that NYU does pretty good. I'd also be interested in hearing about Stanford and T5.

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Re: Best Schools with Diverse Student Bodies

Post by sundance95 » Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:31 pm

drizzle12 wrote:As an AA student I want to go to a law school with visible diversity and active diversity groups on campus.
Isn't this virtually any T25?

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Re: Best Schools with Diverse Student Bodies

Post by 071816 » Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:00 am

I don't have any statistics to back this up but USC does feel pretty diverse.

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Re: Best Schools with Diverse Student Bodies

Post by IAFG » Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:03 am

sundance95 wrote:
drizzle12 wrote:As an AA student I want to go to a law school with visible diversity and active diversity groups on campus.
Isn't this virtually any T25?
NU sucks at it, so I guess not.

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Re: Best Schools with Diverse Student Bodies

Post by drizzle12 » Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:51 pm

Yeah like I said in my original post, it seems like schools strive for diversity and publicize decent diversity numbers but student experiences don't necessarily reflect that.

I've heard good things about USC and Berkeley but outside of that I can't find a lot of input on the subject.

Thanks for your responses so far everyone!

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