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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it so hard for people to get over SAT scores? A student from a well resourced environment with tutoring since grade school is expected to have higher scores than "Pell grant kids".

The ranks don't matter, but I have no problem with putting school that accept students with less resources, educate them ,and get them jobs being ranked higher than schools full of students who already have a headstart in life.[/quote]

No. Pell grant kid who always had top 1% scores, and so did my ivy pell peers, and my T3 med school pell peers and first gen peers for that matter! We did not announce being poor/1st gen then, or wear it like a badge, but it came up and we were treated the same. Now many poor kids are treated as though they snuck in, are not as smart--much more imposter syndrome among the poorer kids now. They used to let in only top pells, no bar lowering. AND NO ONE assuming the poor kids did not earn it! It should go back to how it used to be. The significantly lowered bars for pell, first gen, URM, etc do much more harm than good. [/quote]

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