Racism and Sexism Exposed in Georgetown Admissions

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<p>Georgetown</a> University, a cover-up? | A Voice for Men</p>

<p>"…I can’t tell you how many applications I saw that were just dripping with white male privelege. Any of those that I saw basically went straight to the garbage can regardless of how good their qualifactions [sic] were. If I saw an application from a white male that basically was just good test scores, and activities like chess club or math club or what not then it shows me this person is not interested in a diverse environment. Obviously he made no effort in integrating with minorities or to sympathize with them and is counting on male privilege[sic] to get in. So that kind of application should get ignored. In their place I admitted a female student. This goes double especially for math/science majors."</p>

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<p>That was extremely interesting!</p>

<p>Can anyone confirm this?</p>

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<p>I mean I would assume one person, especially just a grad student, doesn’t have the sole ability to throw an application away without some sort of second review. But awk.</p>

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<p>What a monster. Someone must have influenced her the wrong way somewhere along the line. Interesting to say the least. What I don’t get is why did no one see that she was doing this? I guess I have a different mental image of the admissions process. Are you telling me that it takes just one crazed lunatic to ruin the chances of many people’s admittance? That’s a tad bit troubling…</p>

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<p>I was admitted as a white male. I also indicated an interest (albeit not a major) in sciences. There must be more to this story. That isn’t something that just happens in college admissions (at least in my idealistic view). Interesting nonetheless.</p>

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<p>A good add on post. The origional blog made the rounds yesterday. I’m still not convinced, but if true. It is a shame as is all racism.</p>

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<p>Do I think all people in admissions are perfect and do not have biases? Absolutely not.</p>

<p>However if the linked story is true. Over time Georgetown has someone reviewing applications who recommended rejecting virtually all white males and recommending accepting virtually all women and all minorities. And no one else in the department noticed this pattern over a period of time? The story doe not pass the smell test for me.</p>

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<p>The author of this story is “Dean of Student Affairs at FTSU.” Oh, brother.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know what [sic] is? I’ve seen it twice in the article, but I’m not sure what it’s supposed to mean.</p>

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<p>Spelled InCorrectly</p>

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<p>(sic) means that it is reproduced exactly as in the original. It’s usually used to indicate that a misspelling is in the original, rather than an error made by the person quoting the original.</p>

<p>As for this 'expos</p>

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<p>Consider the source of this material before you decide there’s a conspiracy.</p>

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<p>Wouldn’t joining math club expose you to minorities (asians, at least?)</p>

<p>If this is happening this is a recent phenomenon. My mode friend is a white male from New Jersey studying humanities or social science.</p>

<p>(Not that that’s representative)</p>