It's people who think differently than we do, with different experiences from our own. Medical student Margaret Boozer, MSIV, is a member of the Davison Council, the School of Medicine student government organization. She adds that the racial groups at Duke don't always blend socially, however. I think everyone agrees diversity is desirable. It takes a conscious effort by minority and majority students to bring people closer together.
Competition is fierce for the nation's best minority students, according to Armstrong.
We're just lucky that we're getting a number of them to come to Duke. As Armstrong's frequent flier mileage can attest, it has been considerably more than luck. During the interview process and at Second-Look Weekend for accepted students, current medical students and faculty go all out to make prospective students feel welcome. They told me about their classes, their faculty. That really won me over.