Almost every senior or junior who is planning to go to college signs up for some kind of scholarship. Scholarships vary in many different categories, from how tall you are to your GPA. But are scholarships and schools profiling their applicants? Many of the American middle class is frustrated with the different applications willing to give money out only to the poor, the uneducated, the geniuses, and the minority races. With the middle class in such a tight bind in the economy, the average white student is stuck in a rut and being refused into colleges because of lack of funds and the government special privileges to schools who only accept the minority.

Racial profiling can be defined as the consideration of ethnic background, your race, religious background, or national origin. Originally a term in the justice system, racial profiling has become also a more positive thing for the minority in recent years; any race other than white is now more accepted in America today in many ways, from a better chance at getting a job, to getting a scholarship. The minority groups would claim that this isn’t true; they have just as hard a time getting into college or getting a job because of racial profiling. It seems to be a double-edged sword: while all non-white races are discriminated against by the average American, the government tends to favor them.

Schools are given money by the government to accept students of other ethnicities and colleges are trying to quickly gather as many as they can. Being a business, the more money a college makes, the better programs may become and the staff may have a higher pay. This throws a negative effect at white students, who are now looked down upon because they can’t bring the extra incentive that other ethnic students can, and so they are refused scholarships and admission into the college of their choosing. Scholarships alone tend to favor the minority; companies who support them and fund them are afraid that the government may take action against them if they are ‘racist’, and rarely, a rejected applicant of a non-white ethnicity may sue the company and win against them on such charges if there is enough evidence.

There are plenty of opportunities for white Americans as well, however. A study states that almost $1.9 billion was awarded to white students in 2007-2008 school year, whereas the combined total of scholarships for all minorities was a little over $1 billion. It may be that it is not the minorities that white Americans need to be concerned about when it comes to the question of money for school; but perhaps where they lie on the social scale. Ideally, scholarships should offer equal opportunity to all classes, races, and ages for a chance at starting their life in the college scene, but currently, the system is biased. Perhaps, the government should focus on helping out the frustrated middle class by making the system fairer for applicants who are fairly average of any race and stuck on the edge of our economy.