Archive for April 30th, 2008
It wasn’t a black student who bumped your kid’s college admission
Wanna know who did?
I sometimes hear white friends express anger that their kiddo didn’t get accepted at the U. The assumption quickly follows that he or she got bumped by someone nonwhite.
Turns out the data support another conclusion: It’s more likely your kid got bumped by a white kid with a rich daddy. Privileged white kids account for nearly twice as many substandard admissions as do kids of color.
The Boston Globe’s Peter Schmidt, in an article headlined At the Elite Colleges – Dim White Kids, reported on research by the Educational Testing Service, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Educational Trust. A few excerpts: Read the rest of this entry »
Written by Monte
April 30, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Posted in Politics, Poverty, Race, Social change
Tagged with affirmative action, college admissions, colleges, discrimination, education, higher education, race quotas, reverse discrimination, rich, universities, white privilege