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[quote=Anonymous]What has changed is that the applicant pool became much larger.   My cousin graduated from UPenn in the 90s.  Even though her parents made about $50K a year, after all financial aid, the family still ended up with about $10K/year in loans and out of pocket costs.  No wonder, she was the first kid in many years to go to UPenn from her HS in Philly.  She tested well and had excellent grades, but everyone was shocked that she decided to go to UPenn "where the rich kids go".   Oh, and she paid the application fees out of her part time earnings.

Fast forward to today - now someone like her would pay zero if accepted to any highly selective college AND colleges expand significant efforts on publicizing this information and doing outreach to the demographics that they previously did not bother/care to connect to.   Colleges buy data from SAT and ACT, and someone with my  cousin's scores in her zip code would be flooded with emails offering free college trips and application fees waivers.    Pick a selective school and look at their statistics on first gen and minorities - if you are a non-minority college educated parent from a typical UMC area, these spots are as unaccessible to your kids as the ones reserved for recruited athletes.[/quote]

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