re: Report: TOPS mostly benefits students from white, affluent families

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According to the report, released December 2015, 75 percent of students who received the awards in 2014 were white, with a majority coming from families who make at least $70,000 in annual income.

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What do you know, a merit-based scholarship is awarded mostly to white students, even though they are not overly represented based on their percentage of the total population.

On the other hand, the merit-based scholarships that go out to the football team and the basketball team are OVERWHELMINGLY given to black students.

I don't see how a single intelligent and/or competitive person could give a damn about either of those statistics. That is the beauty of merit-based compensation - the people who get it have earned it.

I use the term "earned" with respect to TOPS loosely, because the requirements are absurdly low, but it is still a merit-based system.