Are poor white males discriminated the most when it comes to college admissions?

Question

Steven D you are correct, I did forget about Asian males.

Answer 1

No, middle class white males are. There are a number of studies you can find on this.

The reason it is middle class males is because very wealthy white males can usually get in where their dad or grandad is an alumni... no questions asked, and males below a certain income level qualify for certain hardship grants and financial aid.

There are scholarship organizations for every ethnic group and those specifically for women, not for men.

Of course, we are of the patriarchy and enjoy so much privilege. The world is our oyster, what would we possibly want an education for?

Answer 2

No--second most.

First most is Asian students, believe it or not. They have done so well that many Ivy League schools routinely give them an automatic negative racial deduction when compiling their admissions scores. There are unbelievable numbers of Asian students getting rejected from elite universities despite perfect SAT's and GPAs and lots of extracurriculars.

But second most is poor whites--they don't benefit from any of the privileges of wealth, but colleges downgrade them because of their skin color.

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Just read Gnu Sense's post--he is on the right track in my opinion...what we need is an admissions policy that realizes real setbacks that students have faced without automatically judging people based on race. Class discrimination (as poor whites as well as poor black kids face) is very real.

Adds: And since women are now overrepresented as undergraduates in the American university system, it is definitely past time to do away with any sort of gender preference system.

Answer 3

nicely, the actual fact you your self are suggesting "white whining" is evidence of this is reality. There are greater damaging white human beings interior the U. S. than there are minorities (in entire #'s), and the placement right this is quite that there are preferential classes and regulations everywhere from hiring practices, to college admissions, for each team yet white adult males. you're able to be something yet white male, and there's a few particular "selection" application, or hiring alternatives for women, and so on. this is obviously discrimination. i do no longer even trust the term "opposite discrimination". Singling out a team then asserting "nope, sorry, can no longer are available in" is discrimination. there is not any rational thank you to assert it is not. P.S. a tiny fraction of whites in this united states are descendants of slave vendors. Over eighty p.c. of ecu descent individuals, got here right here after 1900 - which grew to become into long after slavery ended. So blaming them is absurd.

Answer 4

Yes, although lower middle-class often have it hardest, often having parents who earn just enough to significantly reduce the availability of financial aid.

This is one reason that I support - not junking AA - but shifting it to a system based on criteria such as disadvantaged neighborhoods, poor school districts, neither parent having attended college.

This would STILL help many disadvantaged minorities, but it would also help poor people who are white, and it would reduce the racial resentment surrounding the issue and the stigma attached to educated blacks who are often assumed to have just been in school to satisfy a quota.

Answer 5

poor people have the most obstacles to college education.

males probably get more (sports) scholarships or can get help from the military more often than females.

after college, males fare the best in regard to salary.

there are some colleges today who are setting up quotas and other systems to have more equal ratios of genders
(i hope they're not the men who whined about affirmative action - or reverse affirmative action as i like to call it - the reversal of always hiring white males)

Answer 6

No, I would believe that rich white females are. The poor can easily get federal aid, and the college is the guaranteed there money, the case is not the same with the wealthy. Colleges are more likely to accept men as opposed to women because the knowledge that women are more likely to go to college than men these days is well known. This is the same logic applied to minorities.

Answer 7

Well when there are hundreds of measures & programs & scholarships for "women only" ...yea, that looks a little discriminatory.

Women have been given lots of "special help" that completely exclude men.

You can try to belittle that or ignore that, but it won't go away.

(Discrimination: a: the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually b: prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment )

Answer 8

My college employs a 'womens officer' but the feminist Union President will not hear of the idea for a 'mens officer'. The college also has 'womens studies' - but no 'mens studies'.

Sure sounds like sexism to me.

Answer 9

middle class white men are

Answer 10

no poor minorities are