No no, that isn't what I said. In fact, you seem to be agreeing with me. I'm saying that merely looking at ethnic or sexual diversity is a pretty shallow way of looking at diversity. Getting 5 liberal 20 year olds from new york in a room, even if all from different ethnicities, will probably get you a less diverse group of people on a meaningful level than taking 5 black guys or five white guys of different ages from different parts of the country and different economic backgrounds.

does anyone know what the finance situation is at sarah lawrence? the website is pretty vague about funding. any insights?

This thread has been such a great help in my research of MFA programs. I just wrote a profile for Cornell's program here, I wanted to start doing more schools, and was curious if there were any programs that people had trouble finding information about that I could try to dig deeper into. I was planning on getting profiles of Iowa, FSU, Vancouver, Minnesota, Montana, Austin and Houston initially, as those were the programs I'm most interested in personally, but would love to add more that would help out other people in their search for the right MFA program.