Came across a couple articles on the internet about Diddy's son.
Basically, he's recieved a full football scholarship from UCLA worth about $54,000 and a lot of people were commenting about how unfair it was and how he shouldnt be entitled to recieve such a scholarship when his dad is a billionaire and would have no trouble putting him through college.
personally, i feel like his son most have worked really hard to even be noticed by such a well known college, despite the fact that his dad is wealthy, he's obviously good at what he does, has a good GPA, i see no reason why he shouldnt be entitled to a scholarship like every other student. he didnt ask or choose to be born into wealth, why should that stop his chances of being rewarded for hard work like everyone else?
now i'm not ignoring the fact that there are just as or even more hard-working students who come from poorer backgrounds and whose parents may not be able to put them through college, but i feel like it will always be like that, unfortunately, not everyone will have that opportunity or will be given scholarships, even if diddy's son's scholarship was given to someone else, it wont change the fact that there are less fortunate people who wont get scholarships. fact is, life is not fair, things dont always go the way we want them to, but we move on and learn from it, as they say, the closing of one door leads to the opening of another (or something like that)
after reading a couple of comments, i would just like to say that people talking about equal opportunity and being fair, surely it would be unfair on him if he was excluded from getting a scholarship based on his dad's wealth?
so my question is, do you think celebrity kids, or kids from wealthy families should be excluded from getting scholarships to colleges?
a representative from UCLA had this to say "He's done what he needs to do to be successful, and in a meritocracy we have to accept that no matter who your father is, whether he be rich, poor or absent, that you can in fact be successful on your own merit" <--- this right here sums up what i'm trying to say