Socioeconomic diversity lacking at Penn, study finds

Philly.com ^ | 12/08/2016 | Emily Babay

[Kid Shelleen]

A new study says socioeconomic diversity is severely lacking at the University of Pennsylvania, despite the Ivy League school's efforts to tout its inclusiveness and aid to low-income students.

The Brandeis University study found that that prior to attending Penn, 70 percent of U.S. students surveyed had lived in zip codes in the top two quintiles of median income. Not one student in the study came from a zip code in the lowest quintile of median income, and just 5 percent were from the second-lowest.

[Kid Shelleen]

U of Penn is in a sanctuary city and neighbors one of the world's worst ghettos but still can't find any acceptable poor students. This is really shocking./S

[Organic Panic]

A college that costs $50k a year isn’t attracting poor people? Shocker

[ronnie raygun]

So allow all the students in the lowest quentile take over the school, we turn off the federal money spigot and you can all go f yourselves

[goldstategop]

No blue collar stiffs?

I’m shocked. After racist white trash are told not to apply for high profile jobs.

Call it the Trump Effect.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Tuition is $43,838 per year.

[goldstategop]

A dream for working class families.

The kinds of folks who voted for Trump.

[Kid Shelleen]

Penn President Amy Gutmann makes $2.82M a year. Maybe she can start sponsoring some students.

[aquila48]

Probably so is IQ diversity...

Or maybe not, given the sewers that most universities have become.

[Socon-Econ]

Diversity is a code word for discrimination against conservatives and folks with traditional values. Apply merit-based selection and forget about selection based on ethnicity or sex.

[Secret Agent Man]

So what?

I repeat: so what?

So you have people attending school that can actually pay for it. You have people attending from families that have a strong belief in their kids having college education.

They always have to look at people through whatever class lenses they are obssessed with at the moment. They just look at people as balkanized groups they can divide and exploit. And secure their jobs by saying something isn’t “right” according to THEM.

Lets say this wasnt something they could say was “wrong?. They would just look at a different grouping and complain, not enough women. Or not enough old people going. Or not enough this or that. Oh not enough sodomites and lesbians.

They are perennial agitators and create imaginary problems where none exist to justify their ongoing presence and paychecks there.

[Secret Agent Man]

Diversity = discrimination against whites

Diversity == discrimination against white males

[Intolerant in NJ]

The Brandeis University study found that that prior to attending Penn, 70 percent of U.S. students surveyed had lived in zip codes in the top two quintiles of median income...so let's see - bright people get into top universities - bright people tend to come from families with bright parents who pass their brightness on down to their kids who get into top universities - bright parents tend to have more demanding jobs which tend to pay more money - bright parents with more demanding jobs tend to get paid more money and thus live in zip codes with higher median incomes - once again we can be amazed by the banalities of the findings of social-economic research.....

[Intolerant in NJ]

The Brandeis University study found that that prior to attending Penn, 70 percent of U.S. students surveyed had lived in zip codes in the top two quintiles of median income...so let's see - bright people get into top universities - bright people tend to come from families with bright parents who pass their brightness on down to their kids who get into top universities - bright parents tend to have more demanding jobs which tend to pay more money - bright parents with more demanding jobs tend to get paid more money and thus live in zip codes with higher median incomes - once again we can be amazed by the banalities of the findings of social-economic research.....

[pepsi_junkie]

The Brandeis University study ...

I like how universities are now studying each other.

[Kid Shelleen]

When I was a youth I caddied at a very nice country club. I noticed that a lot of the people I caddied for were doctors or lawyers. I thought that if I could get admitted to the country club I would magically become a doctor or lawyer. /S

[bgill]

Invalid but it’s fun to play with the objectives. Could be no one from the lowest zip code applied.

Bad, bad on U of P. They should throw out the high school record, the SAT scores, required essay and tuition costs and pick their student body by zip codes.

[zeestephen]

I clicked on the link to the study.

The reporting on this study by Philly.com is an incoherent mess.

The research was done by the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University.

Here is the first paragraph of the study:

“This report is part of a program of research focusing on Jewish undergraduates and their experiences of antisemitism and anti-Israel hostility on campuses. It is the second in a series of reports on select campuses, and focuses on the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), historically, the most welcoming to Jewish students of all Ivy League schools.”

The section on income diversity is one small isolated paragraph near the end of the study.

The study also states that just 45% of the students at U Penn are white.

East Asians are second at 23%.

[SkyPilot]

"This report is part of a program of research focusing on Jewish undergraduates and their experiences of antisemitism and anti-Israel hostility on campuses."

I believe this sentence is not proper grammar and it has too many "and's" in it and it does not use proper commas and punctuation and I expected better grammar from an Ivy League University and stuff.

[Paladin2]

Yale should be tasked with fixing New Haven too.

[bus man]

The study also states that just 45% of the students at U Penn are white.

East Asians are second at 23%.

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I went to Penn in the 1980s. I can recall knowing exactly THREE East Asians during my four years there. My, how things have changed!

As for diversity, I’m convinced that the reason they admitted me was to enhance their geographical diversity, as I seemed to be one of the very few people there who didn’t come from the Northeast.