Perspective: I was a first-generation college student at an elite college. The admissions scandal reopens old wounds.
Stanford University was among the elite colleges enmeshed in the admissions scandal. By Anthony Abraham Jack Anthony Abraham Jack, assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is author of"The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students." March 18 at 10:42 AM The college admissions scandal that was exposed last week makes clear what so many of us already know: The much-lauded American meritocracy is a lie.
In 2011, in a ritual that has been repeated on numerous campuses, a Republican group at the University of California held an “affirmative action bake sale,” charging white men $2 for a cupcake, Latinos $1 and African Americans 75 cents. This was supposed to highlight the incredibly unfair treatment of white men wherever affirmative action existed.
For example, Stacy, who attended a distressed public school in Nevada, eventually attended a prestigious private university in the Northeast. She had left her abusive mother in her junior year of high school and was in foster care when she applied to college. She lacked Internet access at the group home, and so, resourceful and determined, she would copy and paste college application questions from a computer at school into a Word document.
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