I would like to follow up on, and add to, what Bethany has said. Uni is a place for gifted students, regardless of race, religion, socioeconomic factors, etc. As far as I am aware, the admissions commity does not look at race when making decisions about who comes to Uni. From this race-blind process, we get the variety of ethnicities that are present at Uni. What better way can there be to being people to Uni? We are a school for academically gifted student. That's why I came to Uni. I didn't come because I needed a more diverse range of students. Indeed, I was pleasantly surprised at the range of students. It is true that we can reach out to minorities in the Champaign-Urbana area and encourage them to apply to Uni. But to really make a huge change in the diversity at Uni, we have to change admissions. We have to make race a factor by installing quotas. And if that becomes the case, another type of discrimination is going to occur. Students who would otherwise make it into Uni may not just because they are one extra Asian or one extra of another race. As of right now, there is no discrimination (as far as I know) in the admissions process. The only way to keep the system unbiased while still encouraging diversity is to encourage minorities to apply. But that is as far as we can go before crossing the boundaries. Also, when Shara says that "most of our students are upper middle class, many of them children of professors or other upperclass professions", I would disagree. I know many students who are not children of upperclass professionals. Just because they don't flaunt it doesnt mean that they don't exist. You cannot make assumptions just because there aren't people talking about how they aren't well-off. That's their own private business. Diveristy is indeed an important issue, but still, academics should be a priority at Uni.