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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with QB and colleges with low income kids is nobody gives them a crash course in social dynamics when you throw $65k kids into a pool where the majority are wealthy and super wealthy. Lots of focus on academics and traditional college life, but nobody gives the “scared straight” talk about how jarring the different socio-economic strata may be. There was an article several years back about how one Ivy school (it may have been Princeton) would give FA kids free tickets to student events and what not (that required an entry fee), but you had to wait in a separate line that basically “outed” you as poor. Well, the poor kids just stopped going until someone in the administration asked. Also, it was only recently that many of these schools decided that they wouldn’t have students do work study in the dining halls, because it just created a terrible dynamic betweeen rich and poor. Maybe they are starting to wake up to this…don’t know.[/quote] This this this. +10000[/quote] It depends on the kid. I went to Duke on 100% financial aid, and the work study jobs are a great memory, and I met my best friends at those jobs. I never thought about being a lower class student to be honest.[/quote]
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