The BUCR Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship BACKGROUND INFORMATION Award: $250 scholarship Requirements: • Applicants must be enrolled as full time BU Undergraduate Students • Applicants must be at least ¼ Caucasian • Applicants must have at least a 3.2 cumulative GPA • All information must be submitted in a sealed envelope no later than November 30th, 2006 to the BUCR SAO Mailbox, 1 University Road, in the Student Activities Office WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? We believe that racial preferences in all their forms are perhaps the worst form of bigotry confronting America today. Through affirmative action and its progeny (some of BU’s own race-based scholarships included), not only does the majority say to any minority “You are different,” but it says “You will always be different, and more than that, you are inferior and incapable of meeting us at our level, so we’ll make all of these special accommodations for you.” We believe this, like all racial preferences, is absurd, and contradictory to our American ideals of freedom and equality. Did we do this to give a scholarship to white kids? Of course not. Did we do it to trigger a discussion on what we believe to be the morally wrong practice of basing decisions in our schools and our jobs on racial preferences rather than merit? Absolutely. Please complete the following. All fields are required. I. APPLICANT INFORMATION NAME: ________________________________________ CURRENT ADDRESS: ____________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ (City) (State) (Zip) (Country) DATE OF BIRTH: ___ / ___ / _______ Sex: M / F MM DD YYYY (Circle one) COLLEGE: ___________ GRADUATION YEAR: _____________ HOMETOWN: __________________________________________ (City) (State) (Country) HIGH SCHOOL: __________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ (City) (State) (Country) (Graduation Year) PHONE: ____________________________ EMAIL: _____________________________ II. ACADEMICS CURRENT CUMULATIVE COLLEGE GPA: __________ Only submit your high school GPA if you have yet to complete a semester of college. CUMULATIVE HIGH SCHOOL GPA: __________ Submit either an SAT or an ACT score. NOTE: If for special circumstances you did not take either the SAT or the ACT, please attach a brief explanation with your essay. SAT I: Combined_____ Math_____ Verbal_____ Writing_____ I (did) (did not) take my SAT exam prior to March 12th, 2005. (Circle one) ACT: __________ III. ESSAY Complete both parts 1 and 2. 1) In 250 words or less, briefly describe your ancestry. 2) In 500 words or less, describe in your own words what it means to you to be a Caucasian-American today. IV. CERTIFICATION Please read the following carefully. I, (Insert Full Name), hereby certify that I am at least ¼ Caucasian, that I am enrolled as a full time student at Boston University, that the submitted picture is valid and of myself, and that all of the information submitted in this application is truthful, my own information, and my own work. I also recognize that this scholarship is privately funded and administered with no official ties to Boston University whatsoever. Please copy below, in cursive, the previous statement, and sign below as to your certification of the statement’s authenticity. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ _____________ _______________________ __________________________ (Date) (Signature) (Please print name)
 
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