Looking back four years from today, I remember being done with my college applications. Scared out of my mind of who would say yes, who would say no, where I would end up. Such is the plight of a high school senior.

But even more is the plight of a minority high school senior. I had a discussion a few weeks prior to this article in which one side stated that minorities had an easier time getting into college. To which I will respond and yell at, "absolutely f*cking not."

There is no absolute baseline for people to get into colleges. Plenty of admission counselors see, while every person is different, very similar applications coming across their desks. We all hear the stories of "oh I know someone with a higher SAT score and GPA than someone else but that other person got into X school the both of them were applying to. It had to be because the person with the lower score was a minority!"

A myriad of studies show that standardized test scores are very poor predictors of academic success in college and success in life. And honestly it makes sense: why base an admittance solely on whether they can memorize the distance formula, or better yet has more access to a multitude of places that help them perform better on tests?

In communities that are just much better off, families prep their kids by spending tens and tens of thousands on tutors and test preps all so that they can get into good schools. No secret that these communities are predominately white. While in low-income communities, large classes, overstretched teachers, reminded of "limitations", underfunded schools, it's not the easiest of roads. No secret that these schools are predominately POC. And this cycle continues, the money continually goes to predominately white communities over those that are predominately minorities

But why is it that we have to worry about, "oh they're a minority that's the only reason they're here?" There are no handouts for minorities trying to get into college, there aren't any advantages, and we’re actually the people who are worried the most about getting into places BECAUSE of the color of our skin.

I could go on and on about how those who spout, "well reverse racism is a thing!" if every black person in a state said they hated white people, not that much would change about white people's lives, them getting jobs, going to school, etc. If the roles are reversed, the lives of blacks are drastically altered. And that goes for a person of color. White students make up three-fourths of external scholarships, two-thirds of institutional grants while making up a little over 60 percent of the college student population. One of the biggest reasons minorities are at times averse to college is the costs and look at where most of the money goes.

All this to say... it's flat out rude, ignorant and borderline racist to sit here and trivialize someone's someone upbringing as "easy" when obstacles have been put in their places for years to constantly keep them behind. If you do you just show the world that maybe you were the one that shouldn't have gotten into your prestigious school not the people you complain about.