[gimpy117]

actually, this is one of the first things I've seen Texas do that i like. as a college student now...and one who is a "wasp" or a White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Male, I am glad to see a scholarship just for us. We are a race aren't we? there's tons of scholarships for the "minorities" and they are given special treatment in college especially when it comes to Admissions and scholarships. I was wait listed for Michigan State University (who ironically doesn't have my major) while every Woman or Minority member in my class magically got in. They all said my essay must have been bad, ignoring the fact that 9/10 of the males who applied there in my school were rejected. I'll also add the fact that I was still rejected even though I would have been a 3rd generation spartan with 9 people in my family attending MSU. I even had a person of Latino decent say that all he would have to do was drop an App into MSU and he would just about be accepted on the spot. What I was told at the time, and I remember now was that in 2009 in the height of the great recession MSU was being very selective, and only taking the cream of the crop if you weren't Female or some kind of a minority.

so yes, I feel the shoe is on the other foot in college, and that they have spent so much time on the noble task (that's not sarcasm BTW) of helping minorities that people like me have slipped through the cracks when it comes to scholarships and admissions.