His favorite TV is "Funniest Mexican Videos".
He's a funny Mexican - He should post a video of himself whining.
Posted on 07/22/2016 6:16:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
'You Belittled Me, But You Were Completely Ignorant of my Struggles:' Stanford Student Tells Dentist in Viral Letter
An open letter, written by a first-generation, low-income Latino student, has gone viral, capturing personal struggles experienced by thousands of others just like him. Guillermo Pomarillo, whose parents are undocumented immigrants, wrote about his experience on Facebook, after he felt his dentist belittled his admission to Stanford University by telling him that it’s easier for poor kids to get into Stanford. New Threat Against San Francisco Police Officers “I nonchalantly said ‘I'm going to Stanford,’ Your initial reaction was surprised. But, were you surprised because you had a Stanford student on your chair or because you had a minority, low-income student, that needed government help to get braces, and would be attending Stanford on your chair? I believe it was the latter.” Pomarillo details how after casually mentioning he would attend Stanford, his dentist began to undermine his accomplishments starting with his ACT scores. VIDEOFacebook Not Being A Good Neighbor: Lawyers “You immediately jumped to ask me what my ACT score was? It was weird cause I have never had a professional ask me that. I answered honestly. Your response after that clearly showed what you were thinking. You sarcastically said ‘Wow you got (blank) on the ACT?! And you got into Stanford?’”
In a follow-up Facbeook post, Pomarillo puts his score between 30 and 36, explaining that he remains in the ‘top 95 percentile in the country.’ The letter continues, ‘I was confused, I had always thought my ACT score wasn't too bad. I mean, I got admitted into many other schools other than Stanny.,”he wrote.
Pomarillo explains that he remained silent as the dentist, whom he doesn’t identify, continued to diminish his education by claiming that kids from low income neighborhoods have better odds of being accepted into Stanford.
“You said, "Well when you have kids from neighborhoods like THESE, like you know, ENGLEWOOD. It's easy for them to get into Harvard or Stanford with a (states my score)." In my mind, I was confused. Did he really just say that? But you didn't stop. You kept going. You said, "You know, when kids go to schools around here. (AKA public schools in minority neighborhoods) It's easier for them to get into schools like Stanford… He continued, "you're very lucky. Consider yourself very lucky. Getting into Stanford is like competing on The Voice, you know, when you get the buzzer."
Pomarillo lists the other schools where he was accepted.
“You're telling me that pure luck got me admitted into not only Stanford, but schools like Princeton, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and WASHU, and waitlisted at Tufts, Penn, and Columbia (I didn't tell him this btw)?! To say that I was admitted into a school simply because of my background is ridiculous.”
Pomarillo, who will be studying Biomedical Engineering at Stanford, concluded his letter by talking about the struggles his family had to face to put him through school.
“You belittled me. You labeled me. Yes, my name gave it off. But you were completely ignorant of my struggles. Little do you know that I grew up in a house where Spanish was only spoken. I had to learn English on my own. I grew up in a household where at times we couldn't afford to pay our rent or didn't have enough food for the whole week. I grew up in a household where my parents were clueless of the college application process, and it was up to me to make sure I submitted all my papers for college. I grew up in a household where college seemed like a distant dream. I grew up in a household where I will not only be the first one attending college, but I will be the first one to leave my home…. You are neglecting that all odds were against me. But you feel entitled to say that I got "lucky" and that "because of where I come from" I got into Stanford. Little do you know that at a young age I excelled in classrooms. My mother kept transferring me schools every time we moved to a new, cramped apartment. But I excelled. I went to a high school 7 miles from my house to be able to be pushed more. I attended one of the best high schools in Chicago and was accepted to other top ranked high schools in Chicago.”
He signs his open letter as: “The poor Latino boy that needs government help to get braces, but is still Stanford bound.”
Piss off, liar.
Give me the dentist’s name or it didn’t happen.
So he took the same prep courses that he claimed gave the Dentist's daughter an unfair advantage over him.
He attends a school which enables him to take 11 AP courses, so that puts him in a very privileged position right there. [I attended a solid suburban public high school but we didn’t even have AP courses, so I was quite academically under-privileged compared to this whiner, ha hah]
He is getting a FREE education in a country his parents came to ILLEGALLY, and now he is (reportedly) getting a full scholarship to Stanford. So despite his poor background (which I have no particular reason to doubt), by high school he had been catapulted by American society into a very privileged situation, indeed. He seems to study hard for it, if his own reporting can be accepted, but still, he should work on humility.
The dentist was not a shi#.
The shi# is this illegal freeloader getting FREE dental care while attending Harvard with low test scores...probably also on tax dollars.
His favorite TV is "Funniest Mexican Videos".
He's a funny Mexican - He should post a video of himself whining.
He just posted on his Facebook page that he will be interviewed on Telemundo in 40 min. The poor lil snowflake is getting an awful lot of attention.
USA Today, Huffington Post, he is already a minor celebrity with the snowflake crowd.....
Ha...send him on a gobmint scholarship to England....let him experience NHS and lack of dentists.
I notice that his English written fluency is a bit shaky, which makes me wonder about his reported 4.0 GPA. He may be a strong student, but the best in his class?? He seems to be benefiting from some “Affirmative Action” in grading, because in my high school no one could have gotten As in humanities and social science subjects with his shaky English proficiency (the science teachers might not have cared as much). Some comments he posted on his Facebook page:
Guillermo Pomarillo commented on an article.
Yesterday at 9:45pm
So, I am really giving many people here the benefit of the doubt. Maybe some of you are clueless or some of you jump to conclusions. But, here are some important points I will like to make.
1. I got a full-ride to stanford through a private organization called Questbridge.
2. I graduated with a perfect GPA and took 11 AP courses in high school. (UW GPA: 4.0 Weighted GPA: 5.24)
3. My ACT score ranges from 30-36 (I will not state my actual score because I will like to keep that private). I scored in the top 95 percentile in the country.
4. My tuition isn’t paid for by any tax payers. I am going to a PRIVATE institution where I recieve grants from the pool of money they have raised through alumni and donors.
5.This is not fake. I did not disclose the information of the dentist or of his office because I didn’t make this post with the intention to get back at him. I am giving him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he doesn’t know of the struggles that students like me face, maybe he’s clueless? Therefore, I refrained to release his name because I am sure that he is not a bad person. I believe people can change and if he has come across my letter I hope it moves him to change. Also, he is a man with a family and I would hate to put his career in jeopardy. I didn’t do this post out of anger. I did it to bring awareness to the reality that many students face across the nation.
6. I participated in EC’s ranging from interning at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, playing varsity volleyball, and competing in Mathletes.
7. Many of you really don’t deserve an explanation from me. But, I felt obligated to state these things because no, being a low-income, Latino, doesn’t mean that you automatically score lower than others or are inferior to other groups. After all, I did score better than most of the kids in this country.
8. I belong in Stanford. I will prosper in Stanford. If you are bothered by me going to Stanford, too bad cause Stanford is my home. I belong there. And so do the thousands of other minority, underpriveleged (including whites) students in college campuses across the nation.
Guillermo Pomarillo is very defensive and paranoid here. He claims he will be studying bio-medical engineering at Stanford which is a plus. His family situation was stressful. His father is under deportation proceedings which wind on forever.
Guillermo Pomarillo has a distorted and entitled (just because he sprung from a poor illegal immigrant family) ideas about how the world works and why he got boosted up into Stanford. BUT he is very motivated and intelligent so should do well in life. And with this mega-chip on this shoulder he will always vote DEMOCRAP!
He's a genius and a humanitarian!!
Me-— I like those car horns that blare out “La Cucaracha” That’s the Mexican humor I like.
Which means he scored 30. If he scored 36 he'd be screaming it from the rooftops.
Another post from his Facebook page. In this one he admits that his English writing is “not my strongest subject.” Yet, we are supposed to believe that he is a 4.0 student (straight A) with 11 AP classes. That would seem to require some substantial “affirmative action” grading. My high school teachers, at least, would never have given As for mediocre or flawed writing.
Guillermo Pomarillo
July 19 at 10:44am ·
First and foremost, thank you! I have received a lot of support because of my posts. I would like to apologize for my grammar, writing is not my strongest subject. I would also like to say that by no means do I share my experiences and stories for sympathy. I share them to empower others. To show others that they’re not alone. I like to think of myself as the voice of the silenced. For a very long time, I was silent. Silent when belittled, silent when labeled, and silent when disrespected. But not anymore. I am now the voice of many. I don’t do this for attention. I don’t need to validate my success by making posts or I don’t have to validate my struggles by listing them out, I know what it was to experience certain things and only I will know the value of my accomplishments and the truth of my struggles. But, I think it’s imperative for me to speak out, to talk about my struggles. To show many students out there that they’re not alone. And with that I encourage everyone to use social media to speak out against injustices, to tell their stories, and to try to make a difference. Social media is a very powerful tool if we use it correctly.
-Guillermo
I have a problem believing he received a 30 or above on the
English Literature and Composition AP test.
They don't talk that way down on The Farm.
He must be confusing "stanny" with "tranny", a term much in common use here these days
And it is a fact that it is easier for poor Latinos to get admitted to Stanford , just as it is even easier for poor Latinas to gain admission. It's even easier if you are poor Latino or Latina and self identify as gay, lesbian, queer or tranny.
Extra admission points are granted if you are creative enough to invent your own new sexual polarity or orientation
A disturbing commentary on the current state of affairs but such is life at the once great institution located in the scorched earth of the crater at ground zero of the Culture War in our PC, affirmative action culture society
Not a Tree left standing .
Sad
Colleges waive those applications for low income applicants. And their are waivers for SAT and ACT fees.
Oh Wow! This young man would be better off attending a local community college remedial writing classes. His chances of graduating would be better. He will have a very hard time at Stanford. His competition will be far better prepared.
Yes, I seriously doubt that!
I do believe he has come far and done well for the family background he describes, but I think we are getting a filtered, somewhat distorted view designed to make his “Affirmative Action” case seem more compelling.
I also think he does seem a lot more promising than many AA cases, i.e., where people are admitted to “top” universities even though they are nowhere near the academic level of peers in the entering class. Unless he is making it all up, he may well be academically accomplished in high school. He’s not a total joke for Stanford, as some AA admits probably are. Still, there are many thousands of applicants turned away from Stanford and the other colleges to which he applied who are almost surely more highly qualified academically.
Also, his self-described “extra-curricular” activities sound awfully light for what the most competitive colleges usually expect. One can argue about whether the “top” colleges should put the particular emphases they do upon grades and/or scores and/or extra-curricular activities, but for what places like Stanford look for this kid is on the weak side. It is his ethnicity plus “socio-economic” background that got him in, when thousands of otherwise more objectively qualified students are rejected.
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