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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pathological liars playing the system. Wow just wow. Insightful read.

[i]It’s Way Too Easy for Privileged Kids to Fake Being Working Class

Being a first-generation, low-income student has been an eye-opening experience—not least in finding out how many of my FGLI peers are actually children of privilege.[/i]

[quote]I am a first-generation, low-income student at Brown University. Like, [b][i]actually[/i][/b] first-generation and low-income. Not in the appropriated “Let me check off a box indicating a minority status that doesn’t describe me so that I’ll get special consideration in admissions” way, but in the “My school’s annual tuition is over seven times what my mother makes in a year” way. Far less glamorous, I know, but at least it’s real.

During my college application cycle, I watched classmates “joke” about lying to admissions officers about how their parents never received a college education while writing from the comfort of their $1.5 million dollar homes about their “experiences” with financial troubles. If anything was poor here, it wasn’t their financial status.

While a suspicious number of self-proclaimed first-generation, low-income students spent time horseback riding in high school...[/quote]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/enough-with-other-college-students-fraudulently-claiming-my-identity[/quote]

I'm going to be critical of the author and this clickbait article. The article is based on "jokes." The author has no evidence that these kids were actually lying in their apps. The article refers to definitions of FGLI status at these institutions, but that reference doesn't make sense - there is no "low income" or "first gen" box on these colleges' applications. There is only the Common App parent section, which asks details about education and employment.

(On another note, her high school, as an institution, wasn't exactly a bad one if her high school classmates were rich kids)

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Did you miss the part about how the Brown definition of “first gen” is actually allows kids to self-define as first gen, even if their parents went to college, if they “self-identify as not having prior exposure to or knowledge of navigating higher institutions such as Brown who may need additional resources.”  She quoted Cornell’s definition, which is similar.

My parents both have degrees from a second tier state university in the South and I could absolutely have answered that question “yes” with a straight face. I didn’t even bother to apply to the Ivy League because I knew my parents couldn’t have afforded the extra expense of traveling to the NE, etc.

It is Brown’s right to extend this “hook” to anyone they want, but it is definitely not what most people are envisioning when they read that X% admitted were “first gen.” [/quote]

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