Mike was a white, male, American, and a good student. He had better than average grades and had participated in several extracurricular activities which demonstrated his pro-active achievements as a student. He had set high goals for himself and wanted (needed) to transfer from his moderately well known junior college to a prestigious eastern university in order to achieve his goals.

After checking with several counselors and reading the correspondence pamphlets from "the" school, Mike became very concerned that his chances of getting into "the" school were only slightly better than 50-50. Mike had recently heard from some of his buddies that Doug, a foreign minority student from Brazil, who Mike had met on a few occasions, and who had similar grades, was accepted to "the" university. Mike felt a bit of frustration and antagonism.

After some prodding from "clever" friends, Mike checked the Native American box on the application form before sending it in; he was sure that somewhere in his genealogy there must have been some Native blood. Besides, "they don't check up on that sort of thing anyway." Further, Mike argued that the same fundamental principle of fairness and equality should apply to him as to any other student, especially foreign. Mike was accepted.

You are a former instructor of Mike's and congratulated him on his acceptance, but then learned of Mike's cleverness from his off-handed remarks which followed.

Questions:

What should you say if anything?

What should you do, if anything?

What should Mike do?

Is the admittance policy fair?