It would be interesting to know how many scholarships they offered to black students—and how many turned them down...
Colleges are all competing for the same black students—and Oberlin is not high enough on the pecking order to compete.
Last year, 168,000 black kids took the SAT. 1680 scored over 1400. For comparison, 167,000 Asian kids took it. 41,700 scored over 1400. Yes the 1% of high scoring black kids are a rare commodity for colleges to chase. 8% of whites and 2% of Hispanics score that high.
For 2018-19 year this school was running > $77K.
This is a private Liberal arts school.
It is selective in its enrollment policies.
It does offer an income graduated tuition but the fees alone are going to cost over $20K
But the student is still going to have to meet the academic requirements.
So the chances of anyone from the hood getting in are slim.
This sounds more to me like this first year student is talking more about Cultural Appropriation.
White people should not be attending Black Music concerts in large numbers.
If the White Students did not attend there would not be any Black Band concerts on campus. The Black Bands would not be making money and Black artist would not be able to make a living.
It is likely that the writer does not understand that ticket sales are necessary for the artist to come to campus. She probably believes that the college should pay the full price of the band’s concert.
Just more lack of thinking on the part of an immature poorly formed mind.