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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is the numbee of first gen college studenta alarmung?[/quote]

Especially when selective SLACS also target first generation applicants who are in high percentages at these schools?[/quote]

I don't think it's alarming, to be clear!  But I spoke with a colleague of mine whose daughter was considering South Carolina who was dismayed that her daughter might be consorting with such a large number of people who had never left South Carolina.  "provincial" I think is the word she used.  I gather she felt that way about any public university fwiw, but especially those in the south.  SLACS, I think, recognize the barriers these kids face, and the likelihood that they are not otherwise going to get many (if any) first generation types, and that the SLACS tend towards provincialism in their own way.  They target these students because the first generation south Carolina kid who wants an agricultural science degree to help bring his family hog farming operation into the 21st century is not otherwise going to apply to Bryn Mawr.  Probably isn't going to even with substantial outreach and financial aid - because it is still cheaper and better for her family to go to the reasonably well-regarded, closeby public university.  Point being, there are quite a lot of similarly situated students at a place like South Carolina.[/quote]

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