[Bruce Wang]

However, the basic premise behind my comment is that one COULD strategically spend all of their social time with a particular affinity group if that was a personal goal.  And then their experience would be different enough that they could then claim their Stanford experience and their Stanford friends lacked racial and economic diversity.

If that was somebody's goal, why on earth would they go to STANFORD?  I know our rival in the Northeast as well as you possibly can without having gone there (sibling there while I was in grad school at the place. Hell, I even married a professor, and lived in the Square with her).  It's not nearly as diverse as the Farm.

To me, that's one of the selling points of the university.  Stanford is truly diverse.  Unless you are giant a-hole, you will meet and become friends with a person of every race, religion, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, physical ability, and academic interest.  The only thing we don't have is the intellectually challenged.

[Bruce Wang]

However, the basic premise behind my comment is that one COULD strategically spend all of their social time with a particular affinity group if that was a personal goal.  And then their experience would be different enough that they could then claim their Stanford experience and their Stanford friends lacked racial and economic diversity.

If that was somebody's goal, why on earth would they go to STANFORD?  I know our rival in the Northeast as well as you possibly can without having gone there (sibling there while I was in grad school at the place. Hell, I even married a professor, and lived in the Square with her).  It's not nearly as diverse as the Farm.

To me, that's one of the selling points of the university.  Stanford is truly diverse.  Unless you are giant a-hole, you will meet and become friends with a person of every race, religion, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, physical ability, and academic interest.  The only thing we don't have is the intellectually challenged.