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A new report has been released showing that white students are more likely to get scholarships.

From Colorlines:

A new report that analyses the distribution of grants and scholarships by race found students of color are less likely to win private scholarships or receive merit-based institutional grants than white students. The report found that white students receive more than three times as much in merit-based grant and private scholarship funding than students of color.

White students receive more than three-quarters (76 percent) of all institutional merit-based scholarship and grant funding, even though they represent less than two-thirds (62 percent) of the student population, according to the report published by Mark Kantrowit, the financial aid guru behind Fastweb.com and FinAid.org…. The report found private sector scholarship programs actually tend to perpetuate historical inequities in the distribution of scholarships according to race.

The full report can be found here.

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