Afirmative action isn't fair, nope. I'm also white, and also poor. I paid for college through FAFSA and personal loans, i.e. my parents cosigned, and probably had to put up our house as collateral, I don't even know. I got a small scholarship because of my SAT scores. Being poor as a bucket of dirt and growing up in a hick town didn't stop me from doing well in high school, because I cared. If you care about your grades, you'll do well, and maybe some people deserve to be rewarded for it. That's what scholarships should be: they should reward hard work. Rewarding someone because they were born a certain color or in a certain country is ridiculous, and I wouldn't even feel right taking such a grant if it existed, because I wouldn't have earned it.