>>Wait, I think I've got it. It's not the players, it's the students, the self-described "Cameron crazies." They are about as crazy as a T bill. 95% of them are privileged kids who compound that accidental circumstance by basking in their basketball team's reflected glory. (Duke football sucks, which surely gives many of us enjoyment, LOL). They know their slots are waiting as doctors, lawyers, corporate titans. At fundraisers some day they will be able to say, "Yeah, I went to Duke. It was pretty crazy back then." As if.
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>I'm not going to spend the time to do the research this morning, but I'll bet that's not true anymore. Most of the really competitive schools draw their student bodies from a really wide range. That's part of what makes them so good.
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>FWIW, when we were college-shopping with Solomon 10 years ago, we almost didn't look at Amherst because we viewed it as an elitist successor for prep school kids. Solomon's counselor pushed us to look and what we found was very different than our mental image. I suspect the same is true at Duke.
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Maybe. They sure look white and rich on TV. Of course, that isn't the whole student body.

I went to one of those schools, too, and it was diverse long before it was fashionable. A good percentage of the student body was black and there were students from every country and every state. (To this day I believe it helped me get in that I grew up in a state with more bears than people). It was a little jarring at first, I admit it, coming from a homogeneous environment, but it didn't take much getting used to. People are people.

We both have to get back to work. Go Bulldogs!

(Emily watched the second half of the Butler-MSU game with me and we both kept smiling every time the bulldog mascot showed up. It was good to smile because it was a very bad day here in the dog department. A topic for another time).