The problem with this guy is he thinks his son DESERVES a full ride to college. Also, poor critical thinking skills.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/03/11/apop031111.DTL&ao=2#ixzz1GmFJbgpi
(via funzette)
Someone needs to tell him that if his son is talented enough, he can possibly get a full ride. Not “anywhere he wants”. The vast majority of people don’t get money to go where ever they want. That’s life, and it doesn’t get easier when you’re a minority.
And I like how he’s raising his son. Now when he gets to college he’ll look at minority students and assume they don’t deserve to be there as much as he does, and he’ll think they’re “taking” something from him just by existing. Awesome.
(via greengrey)(via mizjenkins)
A note on the availability of full-ride scholarships:
Among full-time college students enrolled at four-year colleges, just .3% received enough grants and scholarships to cover the full cost of college.
These lucky students received a full ride through any combination of money from the colleges themselves, federal and state grants and outside private scholarships.
The odds of receiving a full-ride private scholarship is even more remote. According to Kantrowitz, there are less than 250 private scholarships in this country that provide enough money to cover all college costs.
In other words: virtually no one receives a full ride anywhere these days. The reason why your son can’t get a full ride scholarship is because there are approximately 18 million people attending college at any given time and 250 full-ride scholarships available. Even assuming each of those 250 private scholarship programs offer 10 such scholarships (and that’s a very serious stretch), that’s still only 2,500 full-ride private scholarships, making his chances of getting one .01%.
A handful of small colleges offer full-ride scholarships, but they are highly selective and most students who could qualify do not attend those schools. There are also need-based scholarships at many schools, but you must get in to those schools and prove financial need, and many of these scholarships do not cover room and board. Some of these scholarships also require recipients to work on campus. Even for college athletes, very few students get full ride scholarships—and those are usually star football and basketball players. For the most part, the best you can expect from the vast majority of universities and colleges is paid tuition and fees.
Most students today should expect to piece together a variety of scholarships, grants, and loans to attend school—and still expect to pay some expenses out of pocket. Considering that only 54,000 students a year even manage to piece together enough of these to cover completely the cost of their university expenses, it’s highly doubtful that your son—who has the relatively unremarkable accomplishments of lettering in football and being a member of NHS, like thousands upon thousands of other high school students these days—will be one of them. The fact that he’s white is really beside the point.
(via robot-heart-politics)
Lmfao. This motherfucker doesn’t even deserve a good response. Newsflash: I don’t go to college because I’m fucking black you piece of shit.
(via tapesongs)
He’s tired of race? Good thing he doesn’t have to deal with it everyday like all of us brown folk do. He might really lose his shit then.
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