Yes, it is true in some unversities that there is somewhat different criteria for the blacks. I don’t ever think a black that was completly unqualified to attend a certain university would get accepted there, but the whites and other groups would have to have somewhat higher credentials than the blacks to get in, in some instances. Colleges call it diversity–they are trying to make sure that the in-coming class has a variety of voices from all ethnic backgrounds. Since blacks in general have poorer quality of education than the whites have (since their SAT scores on average are lower than whites’ are, and in general, some of the high schools they attend aren’t great), they can get by with having not as good credentials as whites and Asians and some other ethnic groups. The colleges accept the blacks with less credentials because they need multiple perspectives of life and issues–these get discussed in the classroom. Therefore, people of all backgrounds can consider other people’s opinions, regardless of issues like race, since all the people are together on one campus. And they learn more because of the many different perspectives. That’s diversity.

I feel I cannot really say much about my opinion without saying something that would offend someone. I do think it is annoying that black people end up getting better financial aid/scholarship deals than people of other races do. I knew two African American students who got full rides to college, and another one who got all but about $10000 per year paid for at a very expensive private college. Most of this was through merit scholarship aid that other ethnic groups cannot get (as the scholarships were designated for minority students). It upset me because those three people were already middle-to-upper-class Americans. Why should they get to pay very little to go to college while the rest of us have to get in debt or pay lots to go to college? Why cannot those who give out scholarships just give scholarships based on economic status alone, or merit alone?

I also cannot stand it when blacks can get into better colleges than the rest of us when they do actually get to attend good high schools. At that point, the playing field has sort of been leveled between blacks and otherpeople, so I don’t think blacks should get any special consideration for their minority status at that point. But they still do, in the name of diversity.

Basically, affirmative action would be great if it helped only the underprivleged, but it helps those who are as privleged as the rest of us get an advantage as well. Those people don’t really need that advantage, so affirmative action in this country is flawed.

In an effort to include some, others must be excluded. Unfortunately (sarcasm), people can select and choose who they want to give their money to. No, it is not fair, but reality. I was on a regional board to give scholarships to students. It was based at predominately BLACk High Schools, but that did not affect who recieved the award. We have given several scholarships to students of other races, despite it being from a BLACK employee network. Race was NOT a factor with us. Someone mentioned that whites are becoming a minority in America. (This may be the result of white families having fewer children and Latino immigrants having larger families.) The numbers of college graduates do not reflect a significant drop in caucasian college graduates or great increase in Latino and black students. Asians, have increased considerably in this regard, which is very commendable.

Colleges like to have a certain amount of people from each race. Since a lot more white kids are privileged and can afford college, colleges need to lower the standards for people of other races to get in (especially in mostly white areas). They just want to have a better distribution of cultures since it looks better (and like they aren’t discriminating based on race).

If you don’t want that to apply just check anonymous (or whatever it is) in the race box of the admissions form.

I wouldn’t feel to bad about it, we did have that whole slavery thing, followed by discrimination. It prevented black people from getting a proper education and kept them in the lower class. I don’t think its that big a deal, but then again I graduate college in like 5 days.

affirmative action started it and places are scared they will be labeled raciest if they don’t have a certain %of minorities, I am white and feel that reverse discrimination is running ramped (i have nothing against blacks or anybody)but the fact is I will go to jail for 30 days for saying the n word to you and you can call me anything with no hate crime charge,please don’t take this the wrong way…..you have the national American ***** collage fund ,but if there was a white American collage fund it would be raciest,,,,,,,,,,,please don’t take this the wrong way cuz I know we are equal ,,,but because I am white I am ineligible for any help what so ever

I certainly hope not. I feel that everyone, regardless of their race, should have to have the same criteria.

they shudnt