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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand the social engineering trend toward rural and first generation. I understand in low income being a hook and completely agree that pulling yourself out of poverty and succeeding with tutors, high performing peers etc is an accomplishment in itself.

I don’t understand how a low income kid who has one parent with a degree but is still low income is less worthy than a wealthy kid whose parents didn’t go to college. Some schools even define first generation as not having a US four year degree. Are the wealthy kids of parents with Oxford, top universities in India, Korea, China degrees or parents who dropped out and found $$$ in tech, entertainment, sports or small businesses really in need of a boost over the kid living off school lunches, working to help pay rent but has a parent with a degree?

Why is rural the new big thing? It’s not just pulling kids from states that send fewer kids. This has always been a thing. It’s now such a hook that rural is giving a boost to rural zip codes in states that are highly represented. The kicker is that being at a low middle income in a low COL rural area provides for a far nicer standard stand of living than being low mid income in a high COL.

Universities do not do things for altruistic reasons. What is driving these new hooks?[/quote]

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