What matters to perspective is a difference in personal background. Poverty and wealth can go across color lines. Where one grows up can too. In short, college books measure diversity poorly. They look at skin color, when a person of any race can go to a private high school in downtown Columbus, OH and be the same as anyone else who goes there.
Colleges get more perspectives, and thus more diversity, from more economic and social backgrounds.
That is part of what makes Wabash so great. We take anyone, of any color, of any social status, and make them a Wabash man.