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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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That is why most colleges have help for first generation kids.  With my first kid, the parents FB page had many first generation parents asking so many questions, that most of us take for granted.  Because they didnt' attend college there are basic things they don't know---from "does my kid have to move every thing out of the dorms for Dec/Jan Break" to "my kid didn't get into a course they need for their major that it states they must take this next semester, what do they do to fix this". My kid was friends with a few first gen, and I connected (online) with the parents when they had basic questions---for them this was so new, they are paying a lot to make it happen and they just want to "do things correctly".  Was happy to help them, my kid was happy to help the friends as well.  But we take a lot for granted that we just assume since we as parents went to college and understand the basics
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