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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now you know how my kid feels.

Super high stats kid, rejected to T15, Asian male.[/quote]

Awww. Poor thing.[/quote]
Yes, the system is inherently unfair.  It's not like I grew up in a wealthy household myself.  My parents are uneducated immigrants who don't speak English, and I went to a no name cheapo state u because we couldn't afford it. I worked my way through college. We were on food stamps for a bit. 
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But if that’a not how your kid grew up, why is this relevant to anything?[/quote]
It's the assumption that the Asian parents grew up with privilege that I'm countering.  [/quote]

It’s not about how the parents grew up, it’s about how their kids, the ones who are applying to college, grew up.

You went to college. Even if you consider it a “no name cheapo state u,” you went to college- and your kids have an enormous leg up over kids whose parents did not go to college.

Be thankful for the advantages you have been able to give your kids, and maybe find it in your heart to be happy that other kids who are poor like you were are getting some help to go to college. 
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Very much a "f**k you, I got mine" attitude from some of these posters. [/quote]

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