
Lots of applicants own restaurants and businesses and hide the money. I'm aware of quite a few. š |
who would voluntarily want to live/be poor and live in lower income housing? I bet they had few other prospects. Plus when you get to college, you are the "QB" kids. Everyone knows who the low income kids are. If you really aren't, it will hurt you socially. |
Not responsive to the question that was asked, which was about whether parent education is a factor independent of parent income. |
In NYC, high income housing is as bad as low income housing. |
You are saying Questbridge gives no ED advantage. Don't be silly. It is like applying to 12 prestigious schools ED at the same time; kid will get into one. Kids with highly-educated parents - foreign born or not - are almost guaranteed to have successful kids in school; parental education is more important than income in this regard. Long overdue for a Questbridge audit...the irony is a lot of these parents have filled out Visas with their educational credentials and are baldfaced lying. |
You do appreciate that is one of the worst businesses to own unless you create the next Chipotle (i.e., your idea becomes a chain of restaurants you can then franchise). Most restaurant-owner children legitimately are QB-eligible because it's a horribly shitty business. |
The spirit is to win social brownie points while preserving a class of highly likely to be future donors. |
Worse than parent being an employee at a restaurant? |
Don't worry, most of us understood what you meant. |
something i've noticed in my kid's HS college admissions results. The kids whose parents went to pedigreed schools, and have recognizable jobs end up in better-ranked colleges than kids whose parents went to state schools - even if they are professionals (doctors, realtors, small business owners). It's almost like the parent's school pedigree is another + in the box. |
Yes. I recall the economics of a relatively high-end "successful" restaurant where the owner was only taking home like $75k, yet some waiters were making $!50k+ with tips. |
+1000 |
Remember Varsity Blues? There are greedy people out there. |
Some of the new low income housing is now in good buildings with market rents. So your neighbor may be paying low rent while you are paying market rent. |
The colleges are just giving boost to first gen status with no data obviously. Not like this has been researched for decades ![]() |