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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Low income, on financial aid at a top private. Top 25% GPA, good SAT. Does being low income help this year with admissions at Ivys and T20s?[/quote] Actually low income or low income relative to peers? My kids get a lot of financial aid, and are lower income than 90% of their classmates, but we are still solidly middle class and won’t qualify for Pell. I don’t think they will get advantage relative to other private school kids, although I don’t have anecdata to back that up because my senior fell in love with safeties and matches and didn’t apply anywhere reachy.[/quote] DP. My take is that being low-ish income, but above the cutoff for Pell, may be a disadvantage - not low enough for the benefit of Pell (from the college's US News ranking perspective) to kick in. Also use college Net Price Calculators to make sure you don't fall into the donut hole.[/quote]
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