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.”
He stole a Piper Cub to visit his grandparents in Mexico and avoid La Migra locking him up.
Donald Trump-— In for a Pence, in for a Pound.
Guillermo says-—— ANCHOR BABIES HAVE FEELINGS TOO!!! That Jew honkie dentist tried to make me feel like chopped liver. Just because his smarter and more deserving daughter did not get into Stanford while I rode the Mexicano anchor baby express to a 100% free ride.
and VIVA AZTLAN!
Sure, he was—but the dentist’s point was entirely accurate, and this kid is acting as if it is a big accomplishment to complete your own college application. As if he didn’t get into Stanford with his score—which is so low he won’t even admit it in whine here—because he is Hispanic. Pretty clearly he got a 30, which just barely gets him into the 95% range.
That means most likely the kid will either wash out of his biomedical engineering major—or be helped along with his grades throughout.
Maybe not. Maybe he can hack it. But his score suggests he probably can’t. E.g., if the kid were 99% on the math portion of the ACT exam, you can be sure he’d be bragging about that. And having parents who aren’t fluent in English shouldn’t influence that portion of his scores anyway.
I put them both in the jerk category.
You’re most likely not getting into Stanford with that score unless your parents are big donors, you’re affirmative action lucky, or you’re an athlete.
A 31 puts you in the bottom quartile, so a 30 is very safely down in affirmative action and athlete land:
If he was an anchor baby, he should have been sent back with his parents when they should have been sent back 18 years ago.
That's a Maxi-Aggression!!
Where's the nearest sound proof Safe-Space?
THEFT
It never dawns on this criminal nitwit that he is stealing something of value from law abiding citizens who have lived by the rules and worked to earn it.
The dentist’s daughter got a higher score and couldn’t even get on the waiting list.
Sounds like the student was miffed because the dentist pointed out the Affirmative Action truth.
Secondly -- if he uses his education for the good of the USA, he does "pay it back"
Thirdly - the native born American Dentist's daughter with higher grades who got stiffed would have paid our country back.
Sounds like the letter writer belittled himself with all his assumptive mind reading
LOL
After taking a remedial writing class.
Winner! Made up garbage.
This is the first time I have ever heard of a dentist taking it easy on anyone.
Go back to your country punk!
“I didn’t know the government gave away money for orthodontics.”
My leftist neighbor runs a flophouse for anything, including illegals, that can pay his inflated rent. The last batch of illegals, who stuck around for a month, all had expensive SUVs parked in the driveway by the time they left. So I’m assuming that the government (you and me) is now buying vehicles for illegals. BTW, this idiot neighbor will be selling his house soon because we discovered that he doesn’t have an occupancy permit.
Kid is an American attending a private university. In 5 years Americans will be bumped for refugee students.
Is he an American? Both his parents are illegals.... “undocumented” as he says.....
I remember we were so poor that my mom wouldn’t let us buy the chocolate milk at school...it was about 2 penny’s more than white milk...
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