>Participating in "red state" leadership activities among white students such as ROTC have been shown to reduce admissions rates in Ivy league by about 50%.

ROTC was only allowed on campus recently:

"Yale, Harvard and Columbia all signed agreements this year [2011] to bring back ROTC"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/23/rotc-ivy-league_n_1...

It's tough to do ROTC when you have to go to another campus every week.