What I learned after doing the college app process with 3 kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My full pay kid was rejected and wl at 7 schools. The fgli kids from our school w lower stats got in to many of them. No bitterness, she ended up at her first choice Ivy, but there is zero question that fgli kids are “privileged “ by far over full pay kids. It is what it is.

Would you trade your kids’ upbringings for theirs?

that is a logic fail

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a full pay parent and very grateful for that privilege and I hope my kid is too. With all the struggles FGLI kids face with just having to get to the starting line in some cases, why shouldn’t that be taken into consideration in college admissions?

Why does that automatically merit them getting a leg up going to T20?

Why not improve schools in the country so everyone including FGLI get to the starting line?

It would be just silly, but for the fact that Asians whose parents immigrated poor but educated still get the short stick

Yes, improve the schools so everyone can get to the starting line. But we’re far from that. Right now, studies have showed that FGLI have the most to gain in terms of social mobility from attending an elite college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My full pay kid was rejected and wl at 7 schools. The fgli kids from our school w lower stats got in to many of them. No bitterness, she ended up at her first choice Ivy, but there is zero question that fgli kids are “privileged “ by far over full pay kids. It is what it is.

Would you trade your kids’ upbringings for theirs?

That isn’t the issue here. The issue is what app gets preference once they land at the admissions office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a full pay parent and very grateful for that privilege and I hope my kid is too. With all the struggles FGLI kids face with just having to get to the starting line in some cases, why shouldn’t that be taken into consideration in college admissions?

I thought the debate here is who actually is preferred by admissions, not who deserves to be preferred.