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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow.  I'm sorry to see so much hate for this program.

We are white UMC. My kids attend a very diverse mixed-income high school, one that DCUM sneers at. They have friends who are wealthy and friends who rely on SNAP to get dinner on the table.

DC applied ED to a very selective college, obviously a reach. His friend matched through QB to this same school. DC's application was deferred, friend is committed there.  DC's grades are better, has more academic awards and leadership in ECs (but friend has held a part time job consistently since he was old enough to work, which DC hasn't done),  and SAT was 200 pts above the friend.  But ... the friend is really bright and incredibly hard working.  DC's awards and ECs were supported by us parents, while the friend did everything on his own.  The friend missed quite a bit of school last year for family reasons, which impacted his grades; DC only missed school when he was really sick with strep throat.

DC will do well wherever he lands. He really hopes the deferral turns into an acceptance, but even if it doesn't, he'll be fine elsewhere. He has lots of targets and safeties that we can afford.

If the friend weren't accepted through QB, he'd graduate high school and turn his part time restaurant job into full time.  No college.

None of us are the least bit upset about his friend going to DC's dream school, even if DC doesn't. DC is just happy for his friend.

Legacies, OTOH .... those should be done away with.[/quote]

Love all of this. Thank you for posting. [/quote]

Agree thank you for posting - making it so clear what these lower income deal w that umc kids - mine included - never face [/quote]

Oh please. The QB kids don’t have to deal with the housekeeper, the cook, their overbearing SAHM, or multiple tutors.  But most live comfortable, normal lives. Maybe they have to start dinner before a parent gets home or work a part time job. But majority are not slumming it and have a lot of public resources to utilize [/quote]

Something tells me this isn’t your lived experience. As someone who was a super low income FG kid, there’s so much inequity you’ll never understand. I was fortunate to have access to lots of resources but that didn’t make my life easy and I faced a ton of struggles even when I went to college.

Thankfully I went to UVA and my life changed completely. I am now a senior level exec with a solid income, a homeowner and sending my kid off to college.

It took 1 generation to break out of poverty. My kid has never experienced it and will start life off with advantages others take for granted.

These QB kids are more than deserving of these opportunities.[/quote]

Yep, I agree. I was not super low income, but low enough to qualify for Pell grants and state grants for low income families, in addition to being first generation to go to college.

I had parents who cared about education and knew it was the way out of blue collar and lower paying jobs. They got me a library card when I was in kindergarten and took me to the library every week. They made it clear to me that school and college were important and that they expected me to work hard in school.

But they knew nothing about applying to colleges, choosing a college or about applying for financial aid. Luckily, my public school had a decent guidance department. My kids have had a completely different middle class life with parents who knew how to help them get ready for college- it is like night and day to how I went about college applications.

You all who grew up with parents who had gone to college have no idea how different life is for kids whose parents haven’t ever been to college. 
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