[CitizenUSA]

My son was denied an academic scholarship solely on the basis of his skin color. The administrator actually had the gall to tell my son he would have qualified had he been a minority. We ended up paying every last dime of his tuition. That, in itself, is fine with me. What really chapped my hide was the fact that I had to pay much higher tuition rates for my son because government was propping them up. It’s sort of a double whammy. #1 You don’t qualify for government help because you’ve saved $ and you’re the wrong skin color, and #2 you get to pay more because of all other folks who are getting a free ride.

[Nevadan]

When our kids were in high school, they brought home inch thick booklets with pages and pages of scholarship listings. The only problem was that after reviewing the scholarships and eliminating all the ones that point blank told you they were looking for minority students, those with severe life challenges or sob stories, or that required that the student be a child whose parent worked in a certain occupation, there was literally nothing that our kids qualified to apply for, despite the fact they were all excellent students. Curiously, very few of the scholarships listed appeared to rank academic excellence as an important factor.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: The administrator actually had the gall to tell my son he would have qualified had he been a minority.

Correction — he has to be a CERTAIN type of minority. Asians need not apply ( even when they are an ethnic minority even more minor than Blacks and Hispanics).

[kearnyirish2]

“It’s sort of a double whammy. #1 You don’t qualify for government help because you’ve saved $ and you’re the wrong skin color, and #2 you get to pay more because of all other folks who are getting a free ride.”

It is incredible that this is legal. Whenever my alma mater (a state school here in NJ) calls with their palm outstretched I tell them to take it from the minority students they schooled for free; I already gave my “donation”.