Posted on 07/22/2016 6:16:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
'You Belittled Me, But You Were Completely Ignorant of my Struggles:' Stanford Student Tells Dentist in Viral Letter
An open letter, written by a first-generation, low-income Latino student, has gone viral, capturing personal struggles experienced by thousands of others just like him. Guillermo Pomarillo, whose parents are undocumented immigrants, wrote about his experience on Facebook, after he felt his dentist belittled his admission to Stanford University by telling him that it’s easier for poor kids to get into Stanford. New Threat Against San Francisco Police Officers “I nonchalantly said ‘I'm going to Stanford,’ Your initial reaction was surprised. But, were you surprised because you had a Stanford student on your chair or because you had a minority, low-income student, that needed government help to get braces, and would be attending Stanford on your chair? I believe it was the latter.” Pomarillo details how after casually mentioning he would attend Stanford, his dentist began to undermine his accomplishments starting with his ACT scores. VIDEOFacebook Not Being A Good Neighbor: Lawyers “You immediately jumped to ask me what my ACT score was? It was weird cause I have never had a professional ask me that. I answered honestly. Your response after that clearly showed what you were thinking. You sarcastically said ‘Wow you got (blank) on the ACT?! And you got into Stanford?’”
In a follow-up Facbeook post, Pomarillo puts his score between 30 and 36, explaining that he remains in the ‘top 95 percentile in the country.’ The letter continues, ‘I was confused, I had always thought my ACT score wasn't too bad. I mean, I got admitted into many other schools other than Stanny.,”he wrote.
Pomarillo explains that he remained silent as the dentist, whom he doesn’t identify, continued to diminish his education by claiming that kids from low income neighborhoods have better odds of being accepted into Stanford.
“You said, "Well when you have kids from neighborhoods like THESE, like you know, ENGLEWOOD. It's easy for them to get into Harvard or Stanford with a (states my score)." In my mind, I was confused. Did he really just say that? But you didn't stop. You kept going. You said, "You know, when kids go to schools around here. (AKA public schools in minority neighborhoods) It's easier for them to get into schools like Stanford… He continued, "you're very lucky. Consider yourself very lucky. Getting into Stanford is like competing on The Voice, you know, when you get the buzzer."
Pomarillo lists the other schools where he was accepted.
“You're telling me that pure luck got me admitted into not only Stanford, but schools like Princeton, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and WASHU, and waitlisted at Tufts, Penn, and Columbia (I didn't tell him this btw)?! To say that I was admitted into a school simply because of my background is ridiculous.”
Pomarillo, who will be studying Biomedical Engineering at Stanford, concluded his letter by talking about the struggles his family had to face to put him through school.
“You belittled me. You labeled me. Yes, my name gave it off. But you were completely ignorant of my struggles. Little do you know that I grew up in a house where Spanish was only spoken. I had to learn English on my own. I grew up in a household where at times we couldn't afford to pay our rent or didn't have enough food for the whole week. I grew up in a household where my parents were clueless of the college application process, and it was up to me to make sure I submitted all my papers for college. I grew up in a household where college seemed like a distant dream. I grew up in a household where I will not only be the first one attending college, but I will be the first one to leave my home…. You are neglecting that all odds were against me. But you feel entitled to say that I got "lucky" and that "because of where I come from" I got into Stanford. Little do you know that at a young age I excelled in classrooms. My mother kept transferring me schools every time we moved to a new, cramped apartment. But I excelled. I went to a high school 7 miles from my house to be able to be pushed more. I attended one of the best high schools in Chicago and was accepted to other top ranked high schools in Chicago.”
He signs his open letter as: “The poor Latino boy that needs government help to get braces, but is still Stanford bound.”
The Heck with namby pansy stuford.
I had to pay for my kids braces, every one of em. Where is my handout??
Only two comments on the story itself...come on Freepers kick it into high gear!
they all had to learn the English...they had no clue about college....they barely made payments on anything...
we kids in our house had mustard or mayonnaise sandwiches when we needed a snack...I will say we always had Helman's....
They don't talk that way down on The Farm.
And it is a fact that it is easier for poor Latinos to get admitted, just as it is even easier for Latinas . It's even easier if you are poor Latino or Latina and self identify as queer or tranny
Such is life in the crater at ground zero of our PC, affirmative action culture society
. Not a Tree left standing
Sounds fake to me.
Oh, the horror! Snowflake had to walk 1.5 miles to the dentist because his
illegal immigrant parents couldn’t drive him. Besides how does an undocumented freeloader pay taxes? They don’t,.
The kid needs to mature. Few of my friends had their parents pay for college.
But they found ways. Most worked, a couple of scholarships winners ,
enrolling in the Armed services and going to Community college to get through those core basics.
I read over some of his additional posts on his personal Facebook page. I think that the dentist story is true, and that what he says about his background is also true. He would have to be quite the creative writer to make up his entire GB page. I also think he is an insufferably arrogant little twit.
One thing that particularly annoys me is that he asserted that illegals don’t take away from others. But ofc his Stanford story disproves this, for fewer than 10% of applicants are admitted at places like Stanford. He is taking a space that is denied now to many US citizens and other LEGAL applicants.
Pendejo!
And the kid will get a free ride because his parents are illegal aliens.
Snowflake is copo de nieve
#61: You and Lucido will make a very “punny” team.
The kid’s story is no “laughing gas” matter. It sounds more like sci-fi or something one wishes for from the “tooth fairy”.
This story needs more “teeth” to it. If it is a fraud, then can the dentist take “a bite out of crime” by reporting the kid and his illegals family?
Basically I don’t care. If the story is true, perhaps it is true from both sides. However, somewhere in California a poor, American citizen child is not getting free dental work.
IF this is a true story, then Yes, the dentist was an a$$.
In my experience, professionals are too busy thinking of what they’re doing, the SOP involved, &c, to engage in long conversations about inconsequential stuff.
The longest conversation my dentist ever had with me involved his recommendation that I read Spinoza - not inconsequential, and for which I’ve always been grateful.
And, Yes; the kid should major in drama, a very lucrative career, if one is good at it. But somehow, I think he’ll become a community organizer, if he can’t stick it to Lawyer ;-)
-JT
I agree. False alarm by a punk.
He claims poverty but paid for many expensive college applications. Punk. Then he brags about the schools he was accepted. False. He should post the acceptance letters on his page to be responsible and prove me wrong.
I know a few students who received an acceptance letter from Cal and then felt disbelief, and then humbly called Admissions to make sure they got the right person. That is the opposite of bragging.
“whose parents are undocumented immigrants”
I strongly suspect that they are DOCUMENTED - at least in the country they should be living in.
He thinks he is the only person living in the US that struggle with the language and havin no one to help with paperwork for college?
Wow. What a special little snowflake he is.
Except the story he describes is my family’s story. Except on one side it was Polish and the other Italian. No they did not get to Stanford. They went work, and then to war.
This kid describes paradise to them. Going to college was a dream for their grandkids, not themselves.
Culo... sort of
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