Straight from the source: students’ personal views on affirmative action

After having sent out my final college applications it’s hard not to think about the effects affirmative action may have on my future education. Affirmative action refers to the special consideration given to women, racial minorities, and members of other historically excluded groups. With so many schools having adopted affirmative action policies to their admission process it makes me wonder how being a Native American woman will affect my potential to getting accepted to the colleges I have applied to. Will this help me or hurt me? Will I only get into schools because of my ethnicity?

While being Native American may allow me to have a bit of advantage when it comes to colleges admissions, it doesn’t change the fact that I worked hard to accomplish the grades and test scores to get into the colleges I want.