Those of us who benefitted from affirmative action can’t stay quiet
A person could argue that I somehow would have found my way into journalism and to The Washington Post and onto the page or screen in front you even if my life had gone in a different direction after high school.That person would be wrong. That person would not know what I know: what my life looked like on the day I filled out an application to Stanford University.
To get the application, I had to walk back into that counselor’s office. I watched her dig through a cabinet for a while, and just when I thought she wasn’t going to find one, she handed me a packet of papers. I felt relief until I looked down. On every page appeared the word “sample.
In 2019, after the FBI announced it was investigating a college entrance scheme in which celebrities paid to get their children spots at elite institutions, I wrote a column that ran under this headline: “Now that we see what stealing a college slot really looks like, can we stop making students of color feel like frauds?”
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