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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Holistic admissions colleges already factor this stuff in.[/b] Now they do it with census tract data, noting whether a high school is Title 1/how many students qualify for free or reduced meals.

SAT is doing this to make it easier for colleges - who won't have to compute this on their own - and try to make themselves indispensable to an admissions offices. [/quote]

This was what a I was thinking.  Harvard and Williams and Rice and Oberlin will still “craft a class”. And already actively seek to admit disadvantage kids by meeting 100% of need and engaging in Quetbridge and considering URM and first gen.  But huge state Us want to make admissions easier than having to consider and weigh these external factors.

My first though is this hurts affluent URM kids. If you are AA and dad is a doctor and you live in a wealthy suburb and have a great education, the sky is the limit because you get lumped in with inner city kids on diversity admissions. This makes that harder.

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You do not get lumped in with inner city kids at most Ivy’s. You get lumped in with white kids because admissions does not believe you should be given a break. One of the consequences of this is that most  second gen college URM kids at Ivy’s come from private day or boarding schools where you can be lumped in with white kids and still get in. The black kids coming from suburban schools are largely African or first gen. They don’t get lumped in with white kids. [/quote]

You’re kidding, right? High performing minority kids are the HOLY GRAIL for universities, no matter the background.[/quote]

You are wrong. You are  not a URM and you have not applied a child to college. You are probably a bitter white person. Any URM parent of a top # 50 school kid who is not first gen will tell you this.  Schools are looking for first gens[/quote]

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