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<p>Oh, please. Have you ever looked at who the university awards merit scholarships to? Here are a few examples, from the Office of Financial Aid webpage:</p>
<p>Alumni Association of Taiwan Scholarship: awarded to “students who attended high school or college in Taiwan.” Hmmm . . . no implicit racial preference there, right?</p>
<p>Georgia Babledelis Student Aid Endowment Fund: awarded to “students with financial need from the Upper Peninsula.” Given that the UP is 95+% white, one might think there’s an implicit racial preference there. </p>
<p>John H. Barrett Memorial Scholar: awarded to graduates of Newberry, Ishpeming, or Negaunee High Schools. Ditto Babledelis.</p>
<p>Cara and David M. Cassard Scholarship: awarded to “business students from Kent County, Ottawa County, or the West Michigan Region” [an uncommonly white part of the state].</p>
<p>Conrad Family Toledo St. Francis High Scholarship: awarded to “graduates of St. Francis HS,” a predominantly white HS in Toledo, OH.</p>
<p>Elwood Croul Scholarship; awarded to “graduates of the Westminster School in Simsbury, CT,” a predominantly white New England prep school.</p>
<p>Robert J. Delonis Memorial Scholarship: awarded to a “graduates of UD Jesuit High School in Detroit,” an all-male, Catholic, predominantly white high school in Detroit.</p>
<p>We could go on for pages like this. There are dozens if not hundreds of scholarship awards at the University of Michigan that systematically favor white applicants. Yet bearcats chooses to focus exclusively on financial aid favoring black applicants and black students.</p>
<p>The motive behind such a selective use of information speaks for itself.</p>
<p>Maybe the reason to support aid to the under-represented is that they’re systematically under-represented, i.e., that most of the resources tend to flow toward groups that are, in fact, well represented in the alumni base and in the established donor base, who are inclined to look out for their own.</p>