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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We aren’t low income as a family or first generation to attend college, but live in a low income zip code and[b] teen attends large public title 1 school[/b].  Will graduate in top 1%, lots of DE and AP classes, expecting SAT to be above 1500 based on PSAT scores.  No national awards, but some cool ECs, strong leadership, job, interesting hobby.  No one, or rarely anyone, applies to college out of state.  He is wanting a school in top 5-20 (which are all out of state). Does coming from a school with limited resources and no one from your high school applying give an admission boost? [/quote]

If the school is a large urban or suburban school it might help get evaluated in context. I have seen the very top kids from schools like these get some excellent admissions in the Bay Area (Stanford, UCB) but I have also seen kids shut out. It is really going to come down to their other factors like type of leadership, community involvement, etc. along with everything else.

If you were coming from a rural coded Title I school the advantage would be much stronger because it fits both current ideas of 'neglected groups' and you will be evaluated in the context of little being available for ECs.[/quote]

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