<p>Plainsman- I’m sorry you experienced that but I thought it was the complete opposite (lol). I mean I’m automatically categorized as “black american” although my parents hate being subject to that comparison, which I still don’t understand why. They always say it’s because of the reputation of “black americans”, which to me makes no sense because when someone commits a crime or a henious act, whether there Black Caribbean or Black American the person is labeled Black regardless, so the people who may give “black americans” a bad reputation I always explain to them may easily be someone of the Caribbean descent that happens to be categorized as “black”. I’m sorry that happened to you, but I’m afraid that a school will accept me primarily because I bring diversity, and not because of my intellectual achievements in high school. I sure hope my admissions decision isn’t based on that…I hope so. At my high school, there is one teacher that is nice to every black kid in the school and favors us, but it always seems as if she’s buttering us up and looking down on us. It doesn’t bother me that much but it still is annoying that teachers treat me differently then other students, and everyone in my class looks at me when we’re reading something that happens to have the “n” word in it. Even my teachers try to be cool and try to speak slang with me, only to find out that they know more slang then I do (lol). It’s a shame instances like these occur, but like my mother always tells me “if we want to succeed we have to work ten times harder then the white man”. Good Luck though! </p>
<p>p.s. I hope you get into the school your transferring to!</p>