Posted on 10/15/2012 7:40:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of my daughters had a national merit scholarship. She visited Darmouth among others, spent the weekend there, and really liked it. They admitted her, but offered her NO scholarship.
She said that she met three American Indian girls from Oklahoma while she was there. They had been flown up by the university and were offered full scholarships, everything paid, for four years.
Dartmouth always had a policy of admitting New Hampshire Indians, and evidently when those ran short, they felt they had to do something else to meet their politically correct quota.
My daughter went elsewhere. No way on earth we could afford the tuition, with 13 children to put through college.
RE: My daughter went elsewhere.
1) Another Ivy League School?
2) Any scholarship or aid from that “elsewhere” school?
How does she like it there now?
She got a good scholarship at UNH, and did very well there because they had excellent teachers in her field. She’s been out, married, and working for some time now. It turned out for the best.
But it’s not the only time I’ve seen this kind of discrimination when my children have applied to college. And the fact that I have a lot of children was, I think, held against me, rather than grounds for offering scholarship funds to help out.
Ahh tech writing. Good for you! I know someone who has that degree who has a pitiful job but maybe it’s just him.
One of my sisters has a degree in psychology and her husband has a PhD in Sociology and neither of them have ever worked in their field.
I never finished college - got married and we started a business that became extremely successful - but have to say I’ve lived to regret not finishing.
I called my mother and got the scoop. She said she knew he would not be able to do two things at the same time (basketball and engineering school), so when he expressed hesitation about going so far away from home, she said, "You're right. You shouldn't go." Then later when he got offered his very first job offer overseas and hesitated again, she said, "You're crazy! You need to go!" And he did.
So I was wrong. It wasn't about the curriculum, it was that my parents didn't want him to play basketball because they felt he wouldn't graduate if he did. My apologies to all Dartmouth grads.
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