What's it like being white?

I'm just copying this from another comment I made ages ago, but it has more likes (some of which might be redundant in your comment or others, so apologies for that):

Caucasian students receive more than three-quarters (76%) of all institutional merit-based scholarship and grant funding, even though they represent less than two-thirds (62%) of the student population.

According to a national study by the General Accounting Office, less than four percent of scholarship money in the U.S. is represented by awards that consider race as a factor at all, while only 0.25 percent (one quarter of one percent) of all undergrad scholarship dollars come from awards that are restricted to persons of color alone. In other words, whites are fully capable of competing for and receiving any of the other monies — roughly 99.75 percent of all scholarship funds out there for college.

But they also found that "for every $1 spent on women's college sports, $3 is spent on men's," with women receiving only 38 percent of scholarship funds and 27 percent of recruiting funds.

According to a report by the National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest) in Cambridge, Mass., male high school students won 75 percent of the 471 college scholarships awarded in 1993, the first year of the National Academy for Science, Space, and Technology (NASST) program in the United States Department of Education.

According to NPSAS, in the 2003-2004 academic year 59 percent of undergraduate private scholarship aid recipients were women and only 41 percent were men. In the Institute survey, 52 percent of respondents answered the question asking for the number of award recipients by gender. This group reported that 63 percent of recipients were women. This is not surprising given that the majority of students in postsecondary education are women. 6.5% of undergraduate men and 6.8% of women received private grants, with the average award to male students being over $200 more than the average award to female students.

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