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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it interesting that so many Questbridge Scholars have dual citizenship. It is actually a pretty high number. I think it is much, much easier to hide assets when you have international ties.

I suppose it is illegal but it seems like priority should go to students whose families who have experienced multi-generational poverty in the United States whatever your race/ethnicity.

So no Asians whose parents graduated college in Asia.

No Nigerians or Jamaicans whose parents graduated college abroad.

Many recent immigrants also have business where it is easier to hide assets.

I would love to know how many Questbridge student who match (only around 1/4 to 1/5 of students who are in Questbridge actually match and get into a top school), are actually from families who have lived in multi-generational poverty.

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Where are you funding this information that they have dual citizenship?[/quote]

Questbridge 2024 stats
U.S. Citizen: 72%
U.S. Citizen with Dual Citizenship: 16%
U.S. Permanent Resident: 5%
Non-Citizen: 5%
U.S. Asylee/Refugee: 1%

I will add I am not anti-immigrant at all. My parents are immigrants and I would have been eligible for Questbridge. But experience my husband's extended family where he was the first to go to college was an eye opener. They have lived in the US for multiple generations and to realize it seems like an endless cycle where the grandparents have dropped out of high school, their kids drop out or only graduate high school. No one owns a house, not all of them even have bank accounts. I would hope kid growing up in this environment would have some type of priority. If you can excel in that environment you deserve a spot in a top school. In contrast, so many immigrants are go getters to leave their country and start a new life.

It just seems like an awfully high number of US citizens with dual citizenship. I wonder how are international students whose parents were traveling, studying, working in the US when they were born then went back to their home countries. It just seems like such a strange statistic to report. I would think there would be more US Permanent residents, asylum/refugee/non-citizens than dual citizens. [/quote]
I would be very surprised if the percentage of Americans with dual citizenship exceeds 1%. Questbridge has an outreach problem, because tons of Americans are suffering from inter-generational poverty. [/quote]

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