+433 It's messed up how you can get into some colleges specifically for not being white, but if you could get into a college simply because you're white, it would be 'racist.' amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Affirmative action.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Huh?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's called affirmative action. Google it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

A college here will actually pay for most of your tuition if you're white...it's a mostly black college and they need versatility I guess.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I can get a scholarship for having blue eyes (:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Affirmative action is lame and fosters racism. I'm Latin, but I hate affirmative action. It's like telling minorities that they don't have the intelligence or ability to do anything in life on their own.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Me too. My thoughts on affirmative action are similar to yours, but then again I want to go to college and if affirmative action is going to help me do that then yeah I am going to take adcantage of that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I have heard of people actually saying they were black when applying for financial aid so they would actually get it. I truthfully said I was white on my financial aid app, but I havnt gotten shit. It may also have to do with my parents income-but maybe if I was "black" that wouldnt matter.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Uh I'm white and your race has absolutely nothing to do with financial aid. You get financial aid based on your parents combined income, and if the government believes your parents income is too great then you won't receive it. Also, decades ago colleges needed to ensure that there was enough African Americans who could attend college since most of the colleges were racist, for lack of better word, back then so the government decided to intervene. It's not wrong, it's just a process that was enforced many years ago that hasn't changed. I have never seen a black person and a white person apply to the same college with the same credentials and the white person not get accepted as well. It's about your GPA, SAT & ACT, and extra curriculars. Sure you can receive scholarships for being a minority, but you can also receive a scholarship for wearing a ducktaped dress to prom.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No matter what the purpose of creating affirmative action was, it is still wrong. If people want to stop racism, then they need to stop giving handouts to people based on their skin color. There are plenty of scholarships that I have met all the requirements for except for the fact that I'm white and that's wrong. Just because I'm white, why should I automatically not be able to afford college?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was taking my PSATs on Saturday and it said something like, "Fill in this oval if you are a Black American to be eligible for -insert2scholarshipprograms-" I was half-tempted to fill it in. And don't say, "we owe them". We don't. My ancestors didn't get here until around 1920. The descendants of slave owners didn't even affect them.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I took them last Wednesday!:) good luck on getting a scholarship!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I took mine last Wednesday, too. I actually bubbled that in, and I'm white as can be.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Stop your botching blacks and other races(non white) are still heavily discriminated against and were oppressed for hundreds of years so suck it up and get better grades and quit blaming minorities for you not getting into college

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Okay, A: I don't believe I was the one who mentioned black people... B: Not all racism is against so-called 'minorities...' C: Regardless of the fact that they were discriminated against for hundreds of years, Katffro is right, nothing is owed to any group or race, no matter the skin color... and D: I'm not complaining about not getting into college, because I'm still in high school.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Racism is not exclusively white, you know.

by Anonymous 13 years ago