Don't Be Foolish

People get offended much too easily. I say this because some people are getting unnecessarily angry at other people because they're apparently "playing the race card". Where to begin...

First of all, if you didn't get into your top choice college, you have my utmost sympathy. You would think that your friends would be understanding of how hurt you must be after what you've been working so hard for. Obviously, after trying so hard to accomplish a goal and then failing, the first thing we do is tear ourselves to pieces and say how much we suck at life. But after a while, you'll want to try and make yourself feel better by looking at other factors that could have been involved in your rejection. Of course, as soon as you say that minorities have an advantage over white students, you're a racist.

A minority student has to work every bit as hard as a white student to get into a decent college. There's no doubt about that. A student who is lazy, and unintelligent is not going to get into Harvard just because he/she is Spanish. However, some schools (not ALL schools, but SOME) do favor minority students. These schools are mostly the schools that have been criticized in the past for only accepting rich white students that went to some fancy preparatory school and whose parents made a financial contribution to the school (examples: the ivy league schools and other prestigious universities). For example, the well known Stanford University has only 48% white students. Now, if 70% of the people in the United States are White, then that means that if race was not a factor in Stanford's admission process, approximately 70% of their student body would be white. Since about 15% of the people in this country are black, then approximately 15% of their student body should be black, correct? However, that is not the case.

Even the less prestigious schools want to make sure that they have a certain amount of diversity on their campus. It shows that the college is very accepting and represents students that come from every walk of life. I'm excited to be going to a college where I can meet all different kinds of people from all over the world, but I still think that college admission should be based on intelligence and motivation alone and not on things you have no control over.

So, if I am a better student than you (and you just happen to be a minority), and we both applied to the same school, I'm sure that I would get in and you would not. However, if you and I are equally qualified (and you just happen to be a minority), I wouldn't be surprised if you were chosen over me. Be that as it may, if you get into a good college, you had to work your ass off and I would never say the only reason you got in was because you were ethnically diverse.

I'm sorry that some people get upset way too easily but I don't think that gives them an excuse to go around implying things about others. I'm not racist at all, and it really offends me that people would insinuate something like that.