<p>According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 90% of white students who enter Columbia graduate from Columbia; 87% of black students do. Some of the students who don’t graduate may have transferred to other colleges. <a href=“http://www.jbhe.com/features/50_blackstudent_gradrates.html[/url]”>http://www.jbhe.com/features/50_blackstudent_gradrates.html</a></p>
<p>I highly doubt that Columbia accepted a black student who isn’t likely to graduate. </p>
<p>I believe that a student who’s smarting from a rejection may be looking for a scapegoat.</p>
<p>“I guess I’ve failed to clarify what really irks me. See, those of us who know her are maddest for this reason: not that she’s lacking smarts, not that she’s lacking good numbers, but that she has no attitude. She’s a loafer in class and a showoff at the pep rallies. You’d have to know her. I’d love to just post a link to her myspace and bring up the obnoxious hip-hop music; the pics of her in these rehearsed little ostentatious Cosmopolitan Magazine poses; her friends and her with the Backstreet Boys on her birthday. I’d love to invite you to spend a day, a week, a year at my school. But I can’t.”
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<p>You’ve clarified what irks you: She got in. Your friend didn’t. Instead of moving on, you’ve decided to trash her on a public forum. All that does is makes both you and your friend look bad.</p>