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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do know you can transfer - right? I do not feel bad for anyone who just whines and doesn't try to do anything about it. [/quote]

If you watch this kid’s YouTube video on where he got in, you will see he is the child of immigrants with a very low income. I don’t think transferring is easy for kids that are on large amounts of financial aid. He was a questbridge finalist or something, so under $65,000 HHI[/quote]

Wonder if part of his problem is meeting kids there who have immense family wealth and he’s being eaten up with jealousy. It’s one thing to know that billionaires exist, it’s another to meet one and think “why him and not me?”[/quote]

This is probably the most unlikely theory. [/quote]

I went to a private high school that had uber-rich kids as well as trailer park kids on scholarships. (Many others, like me, had parents with good incomes e.g. doctors and lawyers but not uber-rich.) You have no idea how much smoldering resentment the poor kids had for the rich kids. You drive a beat up old junker and the other kids have brand new BMWs. The sad part was that the poor kids thought all the rich kids were snobs who looked down on them, when in fact the rich kids didn't think about them at all.[/quote]

As bad as differences in income can be, differences in preparedness can be worse.

My kid went to a top ten university & got tons of financial aid. Kid definitely felt a bit intimidated by wealthy friends. But at least kid could compete in the classroom.

Kid was a tutor at the school, & said a lot of the football players & URMs were overwhelmed academically and felt alienated from the students who got in on their academic merits.

I know people think they are being helpful by urging unprepared kids to apply to these pressure-cooker colleges, but in many cases they will be better off at good schools a notch or 2 down academically. 
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I was LMC at Wellesley in the 1980s and many of my classmates joked my freshman year about the fact that every class they took was actually a repeat of the classes they took senior year at their expensive boarding schools etc. So they had a lot more time to socialize and hang out while us poor people were trying to keep our heads above water academically. I also didn’t understand most of the cultural references, like “she’s from Grosse Point.” It sucked because back then there was no internet or Google to figure out the references later.[/quote]

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