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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the argument here is that families that are of the "noble" poor variety (i.e. great opportunities and great degrees, but chose low paying professions) are under the impression that they are good FA candidates.  I disagree.  I have always been under the impression that FA is designed more to offer opportunity to those who may otherwise not have it.  Kids who need a helping hand to get out of poverty, or kids who are really talented, but were born into not so great situations.  Of course, it really comes down to how the individual school decides how they want to divvy up the FA money, not me.  But if I had scholarships to hand out, I would give it to kids in the later category.  The kids of the noble poor are getting a leg up just by being born to two parents with good educations and steady jobs.  IF the school wants to hand out merit based FA to parents who are civil servants, that's there prerogative, but it's very different than actual need based FA.  [/quote]

The school doesn't just want kids who are disadvantaged, though. They want the children of professors and research scientists to keep up their SAT/AP averages.  This is also one motivation for the middle class financial aid packages that Harvard and Princeton are giving out these days.  [/quote]

Exactly. At the end of the day the school still wants children who have a certain support systems and belief systems at home. That not to suggest an inner city kid does not, but those kids also have other challenges to overcome that being in a wealthy private school won't fix...and I say that as having been one of those kids. Children of the Nobel poor will come to the table with similar value systems about education, social justice,
Community service etc. They typically won't require additional services that children living in poverty might. Those parents also have something to offer their parent community. If you look at children who test high enough to even be admitted into IS statistically it's going to be kids of professionals not kids born into poverty.

The fact that a few lawyers at Big Law no less have commented they receive some for of aid is proof that schools don't delineate between noble poor and disadvantaged poor. [/quote]

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