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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Low income, on financial aid at a top private. Top 25% GPA, good SAT.

Does being low income help this year with admissions at Ivys and T20s?[/quote]

This is just a total guess, but I would think it helps but not nearly as much as a low income kid who didn't go to a top private. Your kid had lots and lots of advantages that most low income kids don't get.[/quote]

It's the opposite.  FGLI from top privates are the golden goose.  They count for FGLI for the college, makes the college feel good and helps with those stats, yet they know the kid can do the work.[/quote]

Yes. And it’s not just that they can do the work. It’s that they won’t experience cultural dislocation when dumped into a residential school full of rich kids. (Or at least, it won’t be the first time they’ve experienced that kind of cultural dislocation.) Acculturating strong FGLI students and/or athletes, then sending them off to top colleges, is a cottage industry at top private schools and has been for decades. [/quote]

This is such a dumb comment. Rural + first gen is highly prized. If the kid is also low income, it’s a magical unicorn. Thy literally have AOs that handle rural kids separately. They pay to fly them in, put them up, AND have AOs go over apps.

Not a single school is worried these kids will have “cultural dislocation.”[/quote]

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