Do minorities have a better chance of getting into college?

Question

So I was on this site that ranks the chance of you getting into certain colleges based on just about everything: gpa, SAT scores, AP classes etc etc. And I visited this one guy's profile and on one school he had a 93% chance of getting in. He commented that he couldn't believe how high it was and he even said that when he took off that he was hispanic and put white his chance went down to 50%. This kinda made me mad so I did the same thing with that school and got 52% chance with white and 96% chance with hispanic. What the heck? This makes me angry and a bit insecure. What if I can't get into college because of this? The major i'm interested in takes 6 years and there aren't really any "safe" schools I could apply to, it's pretty competitive. The only safe schools would probably be community colleges but then it'd most likely take me 8 years to complete my degree. Grrr. Sorry for venting, but I had to get it out of me.

Answer 1

Yes, it is unfair. But it's also unfair that white doctors and lawyers and other professionals don't set up shop in Hispanic or black neighborhoods. They head right for affluent white suburbs where everyone has health insurance and they can make a prosperous living. The Hispanics and blacks do tend to serve their own communities -- and those communities need medical services, legal representation, teachers, nurses, insurance agents, etc., too. Colleges have found over the last 40 years that lower test scores (common among blacks) don't correlate with success. Their black graduates are just as successful as their white graduates, despite entering school with lower test scores and sometimes grades. So it evens things out a bit. Yes, it means that white students have to work harder to get ahead, which is something that blacks have dealt with for generations.

Answer 2

No, you have a right to vent. It is completely unfair to give preference to people because of their race. This is exactly the defination of racial discrimination. The fact of the matter is however, SOME schools place a high value on 'diversity' so that they try to admit a certain percentage of a specific race to make their college more racially diverse, which is somehow supposed to be a positive thing? You'll notice however this is not true for all schools. The system is unfair, but you gotta deal with it.

Answer 3

that used to be true, there were quotas that were to establish -"equal opportunity" which required schools to admit certain percentage of minorities. The University of Michigan was involved in a lawsuit about this practice and lost. hence schools should no longer be taking race into consideration when looking at students. If you don't have the grades & test scores then you shouldn't get in.

Answer 4

Okay, this is just another attempt to make minorities look bad. Going to a two year college, your credits would transfer to the university(well most of them anyway). What site did you go to? I want to try this. It doesnt matter what ppl write down, b/c you arent going to accept the answer unless it agrees w/ you.

Answer 5

It is unfair that colleges states that "minorities"only includes blacks and hispanic. Where those two are actually the largest minority groups (almost catching up to the predominate race). Asians, however, are not considered minorities (when in fact they are). I grew up and went to schools (K-12) that was 60%hispanic, 35%asians and 5%others. They were all low ranking schools but all of them gave special treatment only for hispanics to encourage them to go to college. They even had a club called MESA that guaranteed them a spot at a state college as long as they maintained at 2.0 GPA and took the SAT (any score). I took the same classes as all of my hispanic classmates and even with all the special clubs and extra encouragements, our graduating class of 350/600 (around 250 didn't graduate), only 80 actually went to a 4yr college, 68/80 were asians.

So I absolutely agree, affirmative action is unfair. The idea of it is geared towards that idea that Hispanics and Blacks do not have the same resources to help them get ahead so they are providing them with some breathing room to make it easier. And from my experience, even if they are given the extra push and extra chances, some communities choose not to take advantage. And all this is just taking away acceptance spots from those who really worked hard and want to go to college just because they have to reserve a percentage for the college "minorities"

If colleges really want to base things on how privileged a student was, they should not use race, it should be based on what schools they went to and community they grew up in. (I had an AP english teacher that had a strong indian accent and couldn't spell half the time, that should tell you why our student class did not score very high on the grammar part of the SATs.. hahaha)

Answer 6

Colleges don't give a crap. Only grades matter. I think it would be the other way around anyways...

Answer 7

if you're white, this is how it works. I'm white too so don't think I'm prejudiced. but this is how it works:



growing up as a white person in America, you are afforded many advantages which you don't think of. this is called white privilege. you can walk down the street at night and people don't suspect you for anything just because you're black or mexican. you can drive down the street as a 16 year old and play loud music without people thinking you're a gangbanger. you can smoke a cigarette and drive your car without being pulled over by a white officer who thinks it must be a joint because you're mexican. you can walk into a restaurant with a group of white friends when you're 18 without the waitress thinking you're going to rape her. you can walk into a bank and have a better chance of opening an account or getting a loan because you're white. you don't have to worry about being absorbed almost by force into a gang in the inner city, because you're not black. you don't have to worry every single day that you're not black or latino enough to fit in with your friends, you never have to "prove" your race



minorities in America are constantly subjected to a series of prejudices like this, every single day, and those prejudices reduce their chances of success in school and in life. that's why.



for a minority to tolerate all that prejudice and still maintain a straight B average and a desire to go to college can show way more intellect and motivation than a white kid in white suburbia with middle-class parents who doesn't have to worry about his next meal getting straight As. get it? it's harder to succeed as a minority, so their success is rewarded more highly

Answer 8

affirmative act if u have two ppl equally qualified the exact same u have to take the minority look it up