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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s not middle class. [/quote]

It is totally middle class. My husband and I are teachers and we are solidly middle class. We make the amount that is in the range of the title of the article: "Kids whose parents make $158,200 to $222,400 a year have the worst odds of acceptance".

If you make $40 an hour that is around $80,000 a year. Two working parents would make $160k. What crazy world do you live where $40 an hour isn't middle class. [/quote]

You don’t need an ivy school. Public State schools are absolutely good and a fraction of the cost.

But— back to the article. It’s not entirely honest, I don’t think.

For example say a school gets a lot of applicants but can only accept 1,000.

But this school is known as a long shot for anyone unless you’re a big donor so the tiny amount of richest rich kids (there are fewer of them than anybody else)  apply there 500, 200 are accepted. That group has a 40% acceptance rate.

Then poor kids who couldn’t afford the ECs, the private high schools, didn’t have the ability to do any of the extra stuff (that costs money!) and went to a average HS that didn’t offer many AP classes—they know they have little to no chance of getting in so even though there are a lot of them. Not many apply. 1000 apply and 200 are accepted. 20% rate for that group.

Then you have the UMC and UC (but not obscenely rich)—who while overall less numerous than the previous group send in way more applications because there’s still a lot of the, compared to the richest segment.

[b]But[/b] this group is definitely wealthy [i]enough[/i] to have gotten there kids private tutors, SAT prep, have a house in a really nice suburb that has schools that offer a lot of AP, had the support and funding from parents to do all that extra stuff colleges like to see on applications. Maybe even hired a college admissions counselor—they send in 5000 applications because they [i]know[/i] their kids’ profiles are impressive enough and are well-rounded just like these colleges say they want to see. I mean, you as parents have been grooming them their entire lives to be successful! And they are the most numerous of acceptances at 600… [b]but[/b] that’s only a 12% admit rate due to the large number of applications.

This is a very simplified version of what happens.

As the article itself points out “[b]All of which is to say there’s a real disadvantage here, but it’s impacting kids who, as a group, have had most every advantage in life”[/b]

But please. Continue to complain about how unfair it is that even though [i]you’re wealthy you’re just not wealthy enough[/i][/quote]

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