RE: Science scholarships help Hispanic students overcome barriers
The majority of repliers are right. Natural sciences are absolutely disadvantageous group to professionalize into if you live in the USA. USA has been social sciences county since early 1980's. Marketing, psychology and languages will bring you much further. Services are continuously growing as percentage of GDP (now over 70%). And the largest part of service is product delivery (i.e. marketing, purchase, negotiations) Natural science is on the product creation side. It is continuously in decline (from 50% in 1979 to lower than 30% today) in terms of GDP. The work force market pressure increases there; funding contracts, i.e. bosses are looking whom to fire while everybody is happy with pay check shrinking.
Helping minorities to get natural science education is actually a move legitimizing and hammering in stone the fact that minorities are and will be a disadvantageous group.
