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Originally Posted by DTD Alum
No. I'm not.
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You are when you're responding to the notion of white privilege.
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Originally Posted by DTD Alum
...few if any scholarships are even available to apply to for white men...the overwhelming majority of scholarships intended to help those who have had disenfranchised backgrounds are intended for specific minority groups....
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Having worked in financial aid for years, I can say that this is not really true.
People simply do not research scholarship and grant options; and the options that are publicized tend to be athletic, academic, or minority-based. That is why people see student loans and going into debt to be an alternative--that's often what they have information about and almost everyone qualifies for a loan.
Anyway, this is why some financial aid departments have HUGE binders in their offices that have information about scholarships and grants. They try to give students info and tell them to research so that they don't have to only get loans. Most students, however, will only utilize the info that you force upon them. It never surprised me when we'd get a student (most students were white) who was financially struggling and complaining and then we'd say "here's some info on tons of scholarships that you can read about and see which ones you qualify for and can apply for." Guess how many students followed through...very few. There's actually a lot of scholarship and grant money out there that never gets used because people (across race, social class, gender, etc.) do not apply and the few who apply are sometimes not qualified.
/financial aid rant