Boston University Group Offers White Scholarship

[Sheep]

Sheep,

Can you decipher that last post? You lost me there, bud.

Scholarships are given to those already accepted into a university/college, or who meet certain criteria in getting in. Getting accepted, and obtaining scholarship money to continue the education are two different things. Higher education (for the most part) doesn't care where the money comes from to pay for school, as long as their students pay their bills.

I'm saying the person earned the scholarship. Handing them out to people who could care less is a waste.

SheepStar

 

[Resident Loser]

Qualifications...

...in all facets of life have been dumbed-down...accomodations have been made for those who can't cope, eroding the entire system...Makes me wonder...can the bar get any lower? College? What a laugh...I knew more graduating from a parochial HS in '67 than most of these recent grads will ever know and that includes some with Masters degrees...you can't teach common sense and self-reliance and making "exceptions" isn't helping.

I'm third generation American whose roots were at the bottom...now I've risen to a comfortable blue-collar level, no one has given me squat, I'm a self-made mediocrity and proud of it.

jimHJJ(...whatever happened to survival of the fittest?...)

 

[BMXTRIX]

You know, I do believe in encouraging those who have potential. But, not based on race, religion, or sex. I mean, I would be far more happy to see scholarships for people with less money. For people who may have not had the best grades, but had a LOT of drive and put a ton of effort into trying.

I have some friends, one in particular, who aren't the brightest, but are incredibly motivated. That level of commitment and willingness to dedicate ones time and effort to a goal may not make them automatically smarter, but it can take them a heck of a lot further than those who are brilliant, yet lazy.

Scholarships - as long as they are privately funded - are not something that I feel should be regulated. For schools, I am thinking, they just want to be able to give scholarships. So, I'm not sure that they should be telling ANY supporting group "No, we don't want your money." It helps students pay their bills.

I agree though - it is a complete lack of balls by the RNC to stop support of this scholarship as it likely DID go to someone who actually needed it. Heck, what college student doesn't need a few extra bucks to pay for bee... um... books?

 

[stratman]

Hey you want to freak everyone:

1.Give free schorlarships to everyone.

2. Close all frats.

UTTER CHAOS!!

 

[Jack Hammer]

If the ultimate goal of higher education is to help you succeed at a profession, I'm sorry, I still don't see how diversity helps an individual succeed academically...

Parting of succeeding at a profession is being able to deal with a large variety of people, ethnically included. People having grown up in cities often have been exposed to a large variety of ethnicities. Some suburban and rural areas really haven't had a lot of this type of exposure.

College is about more than just doing homework and passing a class. It is designed to expose people to arts, different types of people, etc. Generally, to teach you something and broaden your horizons. A diverse student body better prepares a student for the real world.

Scholarships can be offered nationally, regionally, locally, or at only one school. As mentioned by others, there is a difference between a full scholarship to a specific school or a small scholarship to help cover your costs. I imagine the one being offered in Boston is the latter. These types of scholarships really don't encourage people to enroll at a specific school. eg, I wouldn't go to college X because I could qualify to apply for a scholarship that awards $200 to one person and that there are 500 other people applying for.

Jack

 

[stratman]

Hey Jack how you doing?,

From personal experience a lot of the social interaction you'll need to succeed in your career is learned not in class or school, but at home. Sure school broadens your horizons, if you want it too. Some of the persons I deal with on a daily basis range from blue collar to PhD.s and you can tell who is really "educated".

Schools are not the best place to learn "social graces" and diversity, which has become such a cliche. Rather, I would have spent my parents money or my scholarship money learning my chosen field, so when I'm out I'll have the best shot at employment. I did it, all my friends did it, most are professionals, I went corporate for while (12 years) struck out on my own and I've been successful for the last 13 years with my own practice. I like to speak from experience and some of the college grads that I meet, sometimes (not always) I feel sorry for, I can tell they'll be chewed and spit out soon. What is sad is when you see a recent grad that bought the scam that all in the world is rosy, people get along, are tolerant and so on....then reality hits home and that's when they find out "it ain't so".

 

[andy19191]

Positive discrimination is there to serve the purposes of the institutions and any overseeing bodies. In some circumstances it makes sense and in others it does not. Without the details it is not really possible to judge.

For a general population of students, to discriminate in favour of those who have received a poorer upstream education is likely to raise standards when all students at the university receive equal attention. Of course, this can be taken too far. Has it been in this case?

Things become very much more difficult when positive discrimination favours the less able over the able rather than the disadvantaged over the advantaged. Although this may help the balance of women/noncaucasian/... or whatever the institution is seeking to address (or being required to address by those with power over them), it lowers standards and lowers morale.

The solution, as ever, is moderation and a bit of applied common sense. This is usually notable for its absence when positions get taken and the media is brought in.

 

[Audioholics]

I have some friends, one in particular, who aren't the brightest, but are incredibly motivated.

Let's not make this personal, Sheep tries very hard.

 

[BMXTRIX]

Let's not make this personal, Sheep tries very hard.

I said friends! (j/k)

 

[Sheep]

Let's not make this personal, Sheep tries very hard.

Clint, if it wasn't for your incredible hearing and gangely structure, I don't think you would've made it out of all the lockers you were stuffed into.

SheepStar

(Ohh, your tears taste so good!)

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

Clint, if it wasn't for your incredible hearing and gangely structure, I don't think you would've made it out of all the lockers you were stuffed into.

SheepStar

(Ohh, your tears taste so good!)

Hello...

 

[Audioholics]

Clint, if it wasn't for your incredible hearing and gangely structure, I don't think you would've made it out of all the lockers you were stuffed into.

Nice... lol.

 

[Sheep]

Nice... lol.

Truce.

SheepStar