virginclub:

tell me about my white privilege while you get scholarships just for being a minority

SoLDN: “Caucasian students are 40% more likely to win private scholarships than minority students.  ”

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“For so long, I’ve heard this complaint about White college students finding it hard to get scholarships and how racial and ethnic minority college students are so lucky because there are “so many” scholarships out their for us. I was always intuitively distrustful of this belief, but I never really had evidence to prove the claim wrong. Until, now! Dr. Mark Kantrowitz, who is President of MK Consulting Inc., a consulting firm focused on computer science, artificial intellignece, and statistical and policy analysis, is also the publisher for Fastweb.com and FinAid.org. Last year, Kantrowitz conducted a comprehensive study of the distribution of scholarship and grant aid across the United States. His study had some findings that would probably shock and dismay non-PoC:

• While there are very few private scholarships that are explicitly targeted at Caucasian students as a category, Caucasian students receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarships and merit-based grants.
• Caucasian students receive more than three-quarters (76%) of all institutional merit-based scholarship and grant funding, even though they represent less than two-thirds (62%) of the student population.
• Caucasian students are 40% more likely to win private scholarships than minority students.  
• These statistics demonstrate that, as a whole, private sector scholarship programs tend to perpetuate historical inequities in the distribution of scholarships according to race. This does not appear to be due to deliberate discrimination, but rather as a natural result of the personal interests of the scholarship sponsors. [In other words, there is probably an unconscious preference to help their own kind among the predominately White scholarship committees around the U.S.]

So next time, you here someone complain about not getting a scholarship because they were White, let the motherfucker know that it wasn’t because they were White, it’s because they weren’t good enough. Plain and simple.

Check out the full report here:http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/20110902racescholarships.pdf”

You’re wrong. Read a book

(via xmasclub-deactivated20121222)