[Bruce Wang]

One thought/comment, many groups at Stanford in the early 90s stuck together (affinity groups, affinity dorms, etc.).  So I suspect it would be possible for a rich white girl to end up with a bunch of other rich white kids rather than they ~40-45% of the Stanford community at the time that was not white or the rather large percentage of white kids that were not rich.

Basically impossible.  In terms of housing, there wasn't an white ethnic theme option for frosh.  If she ended up in some sort of off campus housing that was only for rich white people for the rest of her years then that's her fault.  There were no housed sororities at the time, so the only way she could have done this was to pull a Yentil and pledged one of the fraternities with this stereotype.  Plus it was almost impossible to attend a class without significant diversity.

I say almost because I did take such a class: Physics 16 Cosmic Horizons.  One of those classes Ivy Leaguers call "gut". I took it to fulfill the science requirement because my AP credits meant the next sequence of science classes would have been Organic Chemistry or Modern Physics.  Plus I wanted to be an astronomer when I was a kid (big fan of Carl Sagan's Cosmos).  Anyhow, I was the only Asian in the class.  I sat in the front row because the subject matter commanded my full attention.  The class had some basic problem sets that involved some math.  Nothing more difficult than trigonometry.  My classmates started coming to me for help after class, which I was more than happy to do.  I then realized they thought I was a TA.

[Bruce Wang]

One thought/comment, many groups at Stanford in the early 90s stuck together (affinity groups, affinity dorms, etc.).  So I suspect it would be possible for a rich white girl to end up with a bunch of other rich white kids rather than they ~40-45% of the Stanford community at the time that was not white or the rather large percentage of white kids that were not rich.

Basically impossible.  In terms of housing, there wasn't an white ethnic theme option for frosh.  If she ended up in some sort of off campus housing that was only for rich white people for the rest of her years then that's her fault.  There were no housed sororities at the time, so the only way she could have done this was to pull a Yentil and pledged one of the fraternities with this stereotype.  Plus it was almost impossible to attend a class without significant diversity.

I say almost because I did take such a class: Physics 16 Cosmic Horizons.  One of those classes Ivy Leaguers call "gut". I took it to fulfill the science requirement because my AP credits meant the next sequence of science classes would have been Organic Chemistry or Modern Physics.  Plus I wanted to be an astronomer when I was a kid (big fan of Carl Sagan's Cosmos).  Anyhow, I was the only Asian in the class.  I sat in the front row because the subject matter commanded my full attention.  The class had some basic problem sets that involved some math.  Nothing more difficult than trigonometry.  My classmates started coming to me for help after class, which I was more than happy to do.  I then realized they thought I was a TA.