[x_plus_one]

In order to make the Amherst Class of 2010 reflect the income distribution of the rest of the population

Why does any institution see the need to remake itself in the image of the rest of the population?

Amherst should require Spanish as the primary language of 30 percent of its applicants given the current demographics in the western states.

Amherst wants to look like what part of "the rest of the poulation"?

The majority of the USA is christian (80%) and a large part are red-neck southerners. Just how far are the bigwhigs at Amherst willing to carry out their ethnocentric goal of remaking their school in the image of the rest of the USA?

Ivy league type schools are no more than minority mills anyway.

You get a better education at State U or a school with less "edge" by staying away from the PC White-guilt ethnocentric, too light for heavy work and too heavy for light work institutions of indoctrination.

[brookwood]

I was going to make your point that no one cares that Christians are probably un-represented, but it's a separate issue. Thanks for the post though.

[freespirited]

In order to make the Amherst Class of 2010 reflect the income distribution of the rest of the population

Why is this more important than, say, making the faculty reflect the distribution of political viewpoints of the U.S. population (60% say they are somewhat to very conservative, only about 20% say they are liberals).

[art_rocks]

Does this include a few slots for those who are or whose family are part of a military background.