Barrett Honors or Michigan?

TooOld4School
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:41:49 +0000

You really cannot control what people think. There is plenty of racism in Asian, Hispanic and black communities too. We have plenty of relatives (we are in a mixed race family) who think and act exactly as you have described, but they are mostly older, and younger people don’t care much. It’s just as prevalent in CA as in Michigan. Best attitude is to ignore it, and stop being constantly offended, and stop seeing racists everywhere. Sometimes they are just plain Ah*s.

Michigan has no race based preferences (like the UC system) so you never hear any grumbling about he/she got in because of race/affirmative action. It seems pretty odd to me that a California Asian received a bad reception because they were Asian, since about 1/4 of the kids are Asian in the engineering school, maybe he/she just had a bad experience. Mostly it’s about maize and blue, not other colors.

The OP and family should see for themselves.