(09-11-2020 12:23 PM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote: The most recent number I could find shows that the average SAT among those accepted at Hillsdale was 1363. Looking at national figures from 2018, the average SAT for black students was 946, for Latinx 990, for whites 1123, and for Asians 1223.
Choosing to ignore all of the many non-academic factors that contribute to differences in test scores is a wonderful way to disguise racism among the university's board and among those who agree with that philosophy.
Yes... in 1844, Abolitionists who refused to play in a bowl game 100 years later because they wouldn't allow their black players on the field... are secretly racists who somehow knew that 150 and 50 years later, their refusal to address race would come in handy. I mean, in 1844, Blacks had all the same rights and educational opportunities as whites, right? If all you wanted to do was admit white people, why bother with those events? Just be like Rice at the time (both times I might add) and only admit whites.
That's certainly possible, though it seems far less likely than the idea that they simply follow their charter which doesn't allow race to be used as a determinant. Rice had to sue to amend theirs.
By your statistics, they didn't admit anyone.
(09-11-2020 12:47 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote: Does Hillsdale make the entire application blind? At a minimum, I assume they’re blanking our names on applications if they want to be completely free of potential racial biases.
Although they accept the common app, which I'm sure includes race, I looked at their direct application, which asks for Citizenship and has a line for dual citizenship... but it doesn't ask for race.
If its just names... somehow a basketball player named Jacob Ngobi got admitted. He's a junior who is 1-3 in his career from the floor and 1-2 from the free throw line.
On the football team,
Jackie Robinson got admitted, though he's white as me.
Quentin Hernandez looks German.
Drew Ransom looks black. NHS, Class President, Team captain and 4.0 GPA through High School...
Austen Williams NHS, 4.0+ through High School. I'm betting they both did better than 946 on the SAT.
Women's track
Carmen Botha is a Sr G-MAC outdoor champ in the 400 hurdles.... from Africa. South Africa. White
Zalona Eby is black... Sr... claim to fame is 2018 freshman of the year. Her 60m time went from 7.76 to 8.15 and her 200m went from 24.67 to 26.56. Guess that 'exception' didn't pay off, huh?
And finally, rather than ask a bunch of white men from Rice, let's ask a black female alum of the school.
Tori Hope Petersen is a graduate of Hillsdale College and an advocate for foster youth, a graduate of the system herself. After a group of her fellow alumni circulated a letter demanding the school speak out on Black Lives Matter, Petersen pushed back, drafting and publishing a powerful letter on her experience as a black student at Hillsdale.
Dear Hillsdale College,
I was one of your “token black” students. The essays I wrote on my admissions application spoke about my newly found faith in Christ, experiences as a former foster youth, and adversities faced while growing up with a mentally ill mother. Though my ACT score was not just below your average, but the national average, you accepted me anyways. While other prestigious colleges might have seen me as a high risk statistic, you saw me as an individual with human dignity. I look at my acceptance letter and diploma as symbols of the institution seeking justice and equality for those who represent me, and that is: former foster youth, underprivileged, undereducated, pregnant student, white, black, woman, and person.
Along with my track scholarship, you offered me a grant designated to low-income students. I couldn’t have attended Hillsdale College without that grant, as I needed it to fill the financial gap many students’ parents generously cover. Additionally, since Hillsdale College refuses to accept any government funding, I no longer had to rely on the county agency or caseworkers for documentation or representation to receive financial aid. Hillsdale College’s stance and assistance freed me from the government system that oppressed me and stifled my voice, the system that still shackles young, vulnerable men and women of color. Because I no longer needed government funds, I didn’t have to report to the people who endorsed abuse and neglect I endured as a foster youth. This caused much of my anger and bitterness to shatter, which was a catalyst to the growth of my faith. This is a statement of stifling systematic oppression.
Since I graduated in 2018 the staff in institutional advancement and I have tirelessly worked together to form the Fostering the Good Scholarship, a scholarship for former foster youth, which are 23% African American, with hopes to continue to fill that gap and leave an imprint in the life of some of the most suffering young people in America. This is a statement of fulfilling the call to help those who have less, so they might someday have more.
During my senior year I attended a casual round table lunch with six other students and Dr. [Larry] Arnn. After I expressed my heart and dream to someday build up a home for those without parental figures, Dr. Arnn affirmed he wanted the same for myself and those children. He offered me an opportunity to visit a home for underprivileged youth that had been one of the most successful homes in the nation, and purchased plane tickets for me in less than twenty-four hours. This is a statement of believing in the less fortunate for the sake of the less fortunate.
The following semester I became pregnant out of wedlock. I felt some students were unkind and some Christians I admired for their faith failed to reflect Jesus when I announced the life of my child, but Hillsdale College’s deans and leadership rallied to support me, my then-boyfriend, and my pre-born, biracial baby. This is a statement of seeing all life as equal.
I, too, initially thought silence was violence. But over the weeks, I’ve realized that sometimes silence looks like paying for a plane ticket for a dream to be fulfilled, so broken lives might be healed. Sometimes silence looks like two years of working relentlessly to fund a scholarship for the vulnerable. Sometimes silence looks like not endorsing the system that oppresses the vulnerable for their own gain, by refusing even a penny. Sometimes silence looks like handing a diploma to a young woman who doubted they’d ever hold one.
I have never viewed Hillsdale College as silent. I still yearn to practice a virtue the college taught me and displayed in the midst of the most recent racial turmoil— prudence. Hillsdale College doesn’t have to be loud with their words, because they’re bold in their actions and consistent in their education, as they whisper “justice.”
Your forever thankful alumni,
Tori Petersen
I don't know what kind of athlete she was, but it looks like they have no problem admitting 'below average' students from disadvantaged backgrounds. They just apparently don't feel the need to wave it around like a flag of superiority.
Any sense of snarkiness here Lad is not at all intended for you...
here is the stated objective of their founders in 1844:
“to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education”
Here was ours, 50 years later and AFTER the civil war:
Rice's will specified the institution was to be "a competitive institution of the highest grade" and that
only white students would be permitted to attend
Look (again, not directed at you Lad) I get that it is possible that this is all just some convenient and serendipitous ploy and that somehow, nobody who was around at any time while the school was turning down bowl bids to support African Americans nor anyone 'wronged' by these policies wants to sue their school for such a blatant violation of their charter.... but the vastly more simple and likely position is that 'irrespective of color' in their charter means just that... and that affirmative action, regardless of its intended purpose is a clear and direct violation of that charter.
