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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll give you another story.

I grew up solidly middle class. My parents were lower-middle class. When my sibling and I graduated from T10 universities, the entire trajectory of our family changed for the better. We are now solidly upper/upper-middle class, in extremely well-paying, "prestigious", creative white collar jobs, and I'm 100% positive that my sibling and I were only able to achieve our present stature because of where we went to school.

Some of us don't have the privilege of going to a no-name school and coasting off of our parents' connections and networks (or institutional knowledge).[/quote]

This is the exact reason top schools are seeking first Gen and URM.  Those are the kids that studies show benefit most from an Ivy (or the like) education.[/quote]

DH and I are URMs, and one of us is First Gen, and this 100%. Changed the trajectory of our lives. We will likely want the same for our children, as the world is less kind to POC.

The advice on this thread is for people who are already generationally educated. [/quote]

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