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Model Minority Myth

bobknightfan said:
Privilege? I didn't get into WF because my family had a lot of money....which isn't the case with students today, by the way. My father never made over $7,500 per year. I went through my entire 4 years at WF without ever having a car for transportation. I seldom had more than $5 in my pocket while I was at WF.

Let's see a show of hands here. How many posters spent their four years at WF without a car to drive? Speak up. We have several thousand registered posters on these boards. I'd like to get a head count on how many people went to WF for four years and never had a car to drive while they were there.
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I had a car a wake that was given to me by my parents. I have yet to have a job that was given to me by my parents. Adjusting for inflation, did you make more than $3,000 in your job that was handed to you?

While we are at it, if a kid graduates from Wake this year having had full freight paid by the parents, they will have paid under $42,000 in 1972 dollars. Did you "earn" that in your first four years of your handout, I mean job?
 
Deacsfan27 said:
How the fuck do you know if people on here got into Wake because their parents had money? Do more people go to Wake Forest who are above the average median income in America? That's something you can look up to find the answer. That doesn't mean that people got in BECAUSE their family had money. Just typical correlation vs. causation logical fallacy.

When I applied there wasn't a "fill in your family income" box that came with SAT score, high school grades, and EC activities.

You're making ridiculous generalizations based on preconceived notions that you have of people on here.
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The point is that unless you are on scholarship, at $60,000 per year to go to WF your family has to have a hell of a lot more money than they had to have when I was going to WF. So money is definitely a much bigger part of the equation now than it was then.
 
ImTheCaptain said:
yeah, just loaf around until you get your life handed to you for nothing
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Or keep partying and getting more degrees, which seems to be the path many here have chosen.

(And I wasn't "loafing" before I took that job, by the way. I had spent 2 1/2 years working for Burlington Industries and 2 years working for Uncle Sam.)
 
Another bkf myth, on this board what percentage do you think have degrees beyond wake, then how many of those degrees are 100% necessary for the field they are in. I know you don't know a lot about this but turns out even if your father in law was say a doctor, he couldn't just give you a job as a doctor you still would need a medical degree.
 
Deacsfan27 said:
How the fuck do you know if people on here got into Wake because their parents had money? Do more people go to Wake Forest who are above the average median income in America? That's something you can look up to find the answer. That doesn't mean that people got in BECAUSE their family had money. Just typical correlation vs. causation logical fallacy.

When I applied there wasn't a "fill in your family income" box that came with SAT score, high school grades, and EC activities.

You're making ridiculous generalizations based on preconceived notions that you have of people on here.
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Humble brag.
 
Also I like that since bkf was handed everything in his life he never learned to work hard and to do his own research so can only post feelings and falsehoods. While I regret this is positive reinforcement of his selfish leisure lifestyle I did the simple research for him.

Recent data for class of 2015 shows 71% graduates employed, 26% attending graduate school, 2% seeking employment, and 1% not seeking.
 
Also, bkf's obsession with cars as a sign of wealth is so dated (and dates him). As a national university, Wake Forest is no longer populated by local North Carolinians. A student from Maryland can't just thumb home for a holiday weekend like BKF claims to have done.
 
wakephan09 said:
Also, bkf's obsession with cars as a sign of wealth is so dated (and dates him). As a national university, Wake Forest is no longer populated by local North Carolinians. A student from Maryland can't just thumb home for a holiday weekend like BKF claims to have done.
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They can put a thumb on that Uber app, though. Point bkf.
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
Also I like that since bkf was handed everything in his life he never learned to work hard and to do his own research so can only post feelings and falsehoods. While I regret this is positive reinforcement of his selfish leisure lifestyle I did the simple research for him.

Recent data for class of 2015 shows 71% graduates employed, 26% attending graduate school, 2% seeking employment, and 1% not seeking.
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And I'm sure many of the grad students who aren't working for a stipend have a job as well.
 
wakephan09 said:
Also, bkf's obsession with cars as a sign of wealth is so dated (and dates him). As a national university, Wake Forest is no longer populated by local North Carolinians. A student from Maryland can't just thumb home for a holiday weekend like BKF claims to have done.
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LOL. More of that smug elitism. WF didn't just begin getting out of state students recently. Probably half of the 32 people in my suite over the four years were from out of state. That isn't even the point, though. Do you think that not having a car on campus for four years only impacts you when you want to go home for the weekend? What about if you wanted to go to the shopping mall, or out to eat, or on a date, or to see a movie, etc? Without a vehicle you are a virtual prisoner of the campus.

You wouldn't say that having a car on campus during the four years is more privileged than not having a car on the campus for four years?
 
bobknightfan said:
LOL. More of that smug elitism. WF didn't just begin getting out of state students recently. Probably half of the 32 people in my suite over the four years were from out of state. That isn't even the point, though. Do you think that not having a car on campus for four years only impacts you when you want to go home for the weekend? What about if you wanted to go to the shopping mall, or out to eat, or on a date, or to see a movie, etc? Without a vehicle you are a virtual prisoner of the campus.

You wouldn't say that having a car on campus during the four years is more privileged than not having a car on the campus for four years?
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I think his point is that having a car today is much less of a "privilege" than it was back in the 60's/70's.

Also, I don't think he was being a "smug elitist". It's a fact that there are way more students from outside of NC than inside NC. Your anecdotal evidence considering 32 students as an example for the whole University is also a logical fallacy. While it may be correct, you could pick a handful of 32 students at Wake who are all from NC, as well as 32 students who are all from outside of NC if you do enough samples.
 
bobknightfan said:
LOL. More of that smug elitism. WF didn't just begin getting out of state students recently. Probably half of the 32 people in my suite over the four years were from out of state. That isn't even the point, though. Do you think that not having a car on campus for four years only impacts you when you want to go home for the weekend? What about if you wanted to go to the shopping mall, or out to eat, or on a date, or to see a movie, etc? Without a vehicle you are a virtual prisoner of the campus.

You wouldn't say that having a car on campus during the four years is more privileged than not having a car on the campus for four years?
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I don't know anybody who inherited a company from a family member. You may be the most privileged person that I have encountered, however abstractly, in that regard.
 
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