I'm sorry, but discrimnation of any kind is not easily overcome. Accents have NOTHING to do with anything.

Most of the people I graduated with (I graduated from Bangkok, Thailand) were able to get into just about any university they wanted to because they were minorities. I, on the other hand, had to apply to a dozen schools, and didn't get ANY scholarships. And my test scores were better than just about everyone in my class, and I was much more well rounded in terms of extra curricular activities etc.

I don't think race should be a question on a college application. You should get in on acedemic achievement or not at all. When I was at college in Hawaii, my English Lit. class was told to take and grade freshman book reports. I was appalled! HPU is a private university, costing $25k a SEMESTER, not a year. I had to get loans and such to pay for it. Here I was looking at papers written by people who wrote the way they spoke, in pigin. Spelling and grammar were non-existant. I still don't understand how the school could justify admitting people like that.

GP Girl hasn't lived enough to be able to say much on the subject, except to keep re-hash her "white people are never discriminated against" idea. There is not a single race who has NOT been discriminated against. Whites who were Jews, Protestant, Catholic, Irish, and not to mention GAY have been discriminated against. Blacks, anyone of Middle Eastern descent, Hispanics, Asians. Everyone at one time or another. And it is not ok. Under any circumstance.

At the same time I believe that everyone needs to take responsibility for themselves. Whether that means not blaming their present on the past, or everyone having an equal chance of getting an education. No one should be given special treatment for any reason, unless they have achieved academic excellence or some other merit, NOT based on race etc.

And now I'll shush on the matter. I just had to have my say. Btw, Catnapper, I agree with everything you've said 110%!