Inequalities  have consumed our nation but it’s not as black and white as we may all have thought (excuse the pun). After reading Poor Queer Studies I had a sense of helplessness when thinking about myself and all other minorities included but not limited to race, gender, and economically challenged folk just to name a few. Why is it that money means so much more to all of these Ivy league schools than actual grades of people as a whole?  They enroll the rich, hirer the rich, and maintain the rich. Why is it that because of your demographic, for example, from a pocket of poverty that  you may have a lesser chance to succeed in this life then someone of the same age, gender and GPA. Just because your race and economic standing is better off than someone of the same sound mind. Someone who may have had the best of the best their entire life, from the best schools and the best tutors. Compared to someone with the same grades from a school out of a poor neighborhood without access to any tutors, but still managed to pull their grades above and beyond any set expectations. Why are grades not able to shine by themselves as being sufficient enough to be recognized by these schools that pride themselves with acknowledging their queer students as being the best of the best. How sad is that? I have the same problem you had reading this; “is that the top schools are the unambiguous drivers of class stratification in higher ed. If the top schools leave poor and minority students behind, they also leave poor and minority queer students behind. Yet these are the schools being recognized as the top schools for queer students.” (Brim 14)