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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you find this "harrowing?"  It's a private college, they can admit whoever they like.  Maybe the white students weren't up to snuff.[/quote]

lol yeah right, tell yourself that to justify this sort of thing!!

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There is some truth to this.  I interview applicants for entry-level jobs that require a bachelor's degree.   I'm in Montgomery County.  From the pool of applicants I see, women and people of color almost always have MUCH more impressive skill sets and life experiences on their resumes than white men do.  (Remember, I'm talking very young recent college grads.)   Typically, the recently-graduated white male candidate has a decent GPA in college and has done a semester or a summer internship in some important person's office.   That's great.    But minority candidates and women bring things like that same GPA, same major, AND being multi-lingual (not just bi-lingual); have created, run, and maintained non-profits; were in the Peace Corps; have much better IT skills than just the generic Microsoft suite; and so on.

It would not surprise me at all if the high schoolers applying for these colleges had similarly-unbalanced applications.    I say this as a 50 year old white woman.   I've watched the demographics change over the past 30 years, when men used to have the better credentials, to women coming up as equals, and then surpassing them educationally.  I'm now exposed to a much larger pool of minority applicants, and see how much more qualified they are.

I'm not saying that's happening at Pomona.  I'm saying those of us who are raising white children need to realize the education and employment landscapes are changing.  And we can't rest on what our parents did, or what we did.

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+1 - I'm cosigning on this as an African-American tiger mom who pushes her kids to over excel because of past injustice and misconceptions.

All the Pomona stats prove is that there are many well-qualified minority students that can land at a school like Pomona. [/quote]

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