And that’s really puzzling as need-based FA only considered financial need by assessing family assets/income or the lack thereof.
Race didn’t enter into it when I was applying nor did it seem apparent when I was guiding some younger neighbors who applied to colleges recently.
Only exceptions I can think of are a few earmarked private scholarships…but there are others out there for specific White ethnic groups as well*.
- Several private scholarships for Italian-Americans, Irish Americans, Ukrainian Americans,,etc when I was applying to colleges.
And most only provided a few thousand dollars per year so it wouldn’t have made much of a dent if one was attending private colleges or some of the more expensive OOS publics even back in the mid-late '90s.