I think it depends on your views and what you believe to be important in your life. You can be passionate about one thing at one point and totally feel passionate about another thing a few years from now.
All major colleges and universities that has not embraced this call for diversity should try to reconsider. Everyone, regardless of race, religion, denomination or region should be given equal opportunity to get good education.
As a designer or developer, you have to start somewhere and it better be good to help you create a steadfast and reliable structure. Great realization there!
We should all just pitch a dollar out of $100 that we earn to Google and have them research on how to cure cancer and see which part of our genome sequence is the one that can change our physical features.