<p>As i was busying myself with countless scholarships for financial need, i came upon something that made me feel intrigued. As i tried to make a conversation with Boy A and asked him " dude, how are u doing in ur scholarship?" he simply replied "no man... in all seriousness, i am white and middle class and they are not simple gonna hand me scholarships."</p>
<p>Now...being a asian but most importantly a "minority", i was somewhat ticked at what he said. He implied that since he was white and i was azn there is a such a biased toward me. Now i have applied for 17 scholarships and most of them does not factor in ethnicity as a major thing, even some of them don't even ask for ur ethnicity anyways. Now i am well off family,( 70000+ income with only 3 family household) but that doesn't stop me from applying scholarships. I worked hard in school and perhaps it isn't the best profile for scholarship profile, but hell i apply for it anyways. Because every little things helps right? I interpreted as what he sayed as "well i cant' get perfects score on SAT so mine as not even study for it." </p>
<p>Am i just being so naive that race factor, "affirmative action" factor isn't that big of a deal, or am i right when he is just being ignorance and happy? I was just curious to see how people feel about my view. </p>
<p>Plz tell me your view, your ethnicity, how many scholarship you applied forand if you think i am just totally wrong or have different approach to my idea. </p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>ok come on! 32 ppl viewed it. Say something!</p>
<p>I'll at least say this. You seem like a really determined guy who is willing to put forth a lot of work and effort to get what you want. THAT will be a key to your success whether scholarships pay off or not and regardless of your race.</p>
<p>Well, I am the mother of a caucasian male student. I have done lots of research on scholarships and there DEFINITELY are more scholarships for girls, african americans girls and guys, hispanics, american indians and other ethnicities than just caucasian males.</p>
<p>BUT.....with that being said, we only target scholarships NOT BASED ON RACE OR ETHNICITIES...the ones that either race or ethnicity has a chance at. But in reality, being a woman of any race, being african american, hispanic or american indian, there are more scholarship opportunities than a caucasian boy has.</p>
<p>I wrote this huge long response a couple hours ago, but then the database had an error and deleted my post. </p>
<p>I said something like russpt2000 said. Maybe what Boy A was saying was not that minorities have an advantage in scholarship selection, but had more scholarships to choose from.</p>
<p>And then I just rambled for a while, which doesn't matter.</p>
<p>More and more scholarships have a component of need in them as well.</p>
<p>Maybe what Boy A was saying is that he wasn't going to bother to work at any scholarships (write essays, audition). He just wanted them handed to him.</p>
<p>I might be naive but I was under the impression that most financial aid was either need based (income and assets), or merit based (either athletic or academic). I know there are some scholarships reserved for URM's (which does not include Asians) and a handful of small scholarships reserved for every conceivable nook and cranny of humanity, but that the really big bucks were either need or merit based (race and ethnicity just not an issue one way or the other).</p>
<p>i must admit: i thought that, since i am a white male, i would have no chance at any scholarships. however, that could not be further from the truth. if you seek out opportunities, you will get some of them; but nothing is handed to you.</p>
<p>I think the issue has more to do with income than race. </p>
<p>On a side note though, I do know that it's easier to secure an internship as a minority. I competed with 60 other students at my school and students from 4 other schools (so I'm guessing over 200 students) for one internship. </p>
<p>That same semester, my friend (who was a year behind us) went through a minority placement org and competed with 4 other students for an identical internship which he received. </p>
<p>Another girl in my class went through the same organization and received internships with a top consulting company every summer. I'm guessing that she didn't have to compete with anyone because she was literally the dumbest person I knew in our graduating class (no joke..and I knew at least 50-75 of the people in our class). Long story short, she received a job offer from that consulting firm which was 20k over the avg for our class because they liked her.</p>