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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Upper middle class white kids are in a dead zone for admissions unless they’re a recruitable athlete.  They’re in the same pile as rich kids, private and boarding school kids but have a fraction of the resources.  Especially if you live in a high COL area.

And moving in high school should be considered the disadvantage that it is. [/quote]

Correct.

But with squash, field hockey, volleyball, lacrosse, baseball, golf, tennis, wrestling, water polo, fencing, cross country, etc, etc, etc, there's plenty of opportunities for UMC white kids to get a hook.[/quote]

Absolute rubbish. Only about 7% of high school athletes play in college (2% play division I), and that number includes kids who are not UMC or white. Many UMC white kids are not even athletes. Very far from being “plenty of opportunity” especially as a hook to an elite school.[/quote]
Top SLACs (Division 3) have 33% or more recruited athletes; these athletes are far more white — and [b]wealthy[/b] — than these schools’ general student population. [/quote]

You are missing the point. The PP distinguished between UMC white kids and “rich kids” (private and boarding school kids). Then another PP said the former group (not-rich UMC white kids) still have “plenty of opportunities” as athletes. I disagreed, because there’s not a lot of athletes and many of them are not UMC (they are rich) or white. You are actually supporting my point - these white wealthy SLAC athletes are very often rich private school kids NOT regular suburban UMC kids. Thus the point stands that sports are not a major opportunity for regular non-rich UMC white kids.[/quote]

I think a lot of people are unaware of how many people are really, really rich.  Not earn a nice paycheck rich- extreme wealth.  $60,000 a year per kid for prep school, paying full tuition in cash at $77,000 a year universities, multiple $3 million homes, several vacations a year to places like Vail, Europe, Maldives, and Dubai. Legacy. Private coaches for everything rich. Normal UMC white kids are competing against these kids for a spot at selective universities.  If you’re white and not super wealthy, you need a geography hook, an unusual talent, or to come from poverty and/or an “at-risk” high school but show that you’ve overcome that adversity with great grades, test scores, and service work (and write an essay that sells that.)

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