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Imagine you are a high school senior at a good but far from elite high school (average SAT 1085), sporting a good but hardly stellar GPA. You want to study psychology and you've applied to a bunch of mid-rank colleges. What level of scholarship funding would you expect to be offered? How would your race factor into it? If you are black, would you miss out on scholarship offers due to the "systemic racism" we hear so much about?
Also, have you been to West Philadelphia. A lot of Scholarships is Essay writing, for all you know she could have had some of the most traumatic experiences growing up in such a dangerous and poverty stricken part of the U.S.
If memory serves, my child last year (HS Class of 20) applied to 7. Most of those were free. One important distinction is CommonApp (I think that's the name) - she didn't fill out 7 apps. She filled out 2, and about 1/10 of the content on the other 5. Most of them didn't have essays.
In Shanya's case, maybe she got them for free (most colleges waive application fees for financial hardship) if needed.
Thanks, I was thinking most kids apply to the ones they are serious about because those application fee can add up.
Exactly. Why on earth these people so small-minded when a black person achieves something? How on earth is that an affront to them? Shouldn't we be celebrating an example of when a young person makes the most of the opportunities available to them?
if her GPA is unweighted, then she's a B average student, at a solid but not the best school, with solid credentials. She's probably deserving of some scholarship money for sure, but 1 million? Come on...
I had a much better GPA and didn't get awarded any scholarships.
Exactly. Also you need to make under a certain amount of money to be eligible for some scholarships as well. I was told by all the people I know i'm black I would get a lot of scholarships. I applied to a few of them, and not even one worked, I personally know I didn't apply to enough. But even me being black, income was a big restriction, a ton of the scholarships rightly blocked my access because my parents made too much money. Expecting upper middle class people who are white and Asian to get access to these same scholarships is ludicrous. Especially when they aren't applying to schools like that, their all trying to go for Ivies and Ivy-equivalents.
That is actually a key point.
A lot of really super selective schools don't need to use scholarship money (which isn't need based) to attract applicants to actually go and attend their institution - there are plenty of students who want to come.
For that reason, UC Berkeley and UCLA are actually stingier with their merit aid money than somewhat less selective campuses such as UC Santa Cruz.
Now for colleges and universities that are not quite as selective, but still excellent in their academics - they'll often sweeten the deal by offering merit aid, say, $18K, $13K per year for a private institution. Not bad.
Asians are not discriminated against in college admissions. Part of where this is coming from is white racists using Asians as pawns against blacks. It's a basic model-minority thing. Claiming blacks are taking spots from Asians (cough cough whites....like you slid in there in you post). In one of the recent lawsuits, it was found that asians, like i eluded to before, were "losing" spots because they have a tendency to be grade-robots and standardized-test robots and in some cases having cheating networks. They were failing when it came to the "personality" parts of admission in comparison to WHITES in the lawsuit against Harvard.
Yup.
Notice that they're all silent about legacy admissions and athletics recruiting at those superselective unis. Most of whom are disproportionately white. Meanwhile, Yale is, what, 6% black? C'mon now.
She has average academic merit but has schools throwing 7 digits of money at her because she is black.
Systemic racism is the fact that if she were Asian she wouldn't get that same money thrown at her. Systemic racism often favors black people if we are honest and not lying, being woke requires lies.
Notice that they're all silent about legacy admissions and athletics recruiting at those superselective unis. Most of whom are disproportionately white. Meanwhile, Yale is, what, 6% black? C'mon now.
You are extremely ignorant if you don't think Asians and to a lesser extent whites have a more difficult time in the admissions process than blacks due to systemic leftist racism.
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Princeton professor Thomas Espenshade and coauthor Alexandra Radford demonstrate that, controlling for other variables, Asian students applying to highly selective private colleges face odds against their admission three times as high as whites, six times as high as Hispanics, and sixteen times as high as blacks. To put it another way: Asians need SAT scores 140 points higher than whites, 270 points higher than Hispanics, and an incredible 450 points higher than blacks (out of 1,600 points) to get into these schools. An Asian applicant with an SAT score of 1,500, that is, has the same chance of being accepted as a white student with a 1,360, a Latino with a 1,230, or an African-American with a 1,050. Among candidates in the highest (1,400–1,600) SAT range, 77 percent of blacks, 48 percent of Hispanics, 40 percent of whites, and only 30 percent of Asians are admitted.
An average of $60,000 per school. What am I missing? She doesn't pocket the money from the schools offering financial aid where she doesn't attend.
That's what I was wondering. It sounded like she received 1,000,000 just for applying.
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