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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rich kids[/quote]

OP - Check out the Johnson scholarship before you fall for this.[/quote]

I know someone who got the Johnson scholarship. Because he got the scholarship, his parents gave him the $400,000  they put away for college. Like pp have said- rich kids and very greek.[/quote]

Sounds like they planned well for college. Shame on them. [/quote]

They did. No shame. The point is that the Johnson scholarship’s existence doesn’t somehow disprove the repeated responses that it’s a rich kid school. [/quote]

Nor does your single data point refute it. [/quote]

NP. Just 7% of students at Washington and Lee receive Pell Grants. 19.1% of students there come from the top 1% (so income of over $600K/year), while just 8% come from the bottom 60%, or less than 65K/year. This is the second lowest of *any* college or university in the entire US (for reference, there's about 4000 of them). That doesn't mean rich people are bad, or that families should be shamed for making a lot of money and saving for their children, or that students at the school are inherently bad people. It's merely a data point - a data point that Washington and Lee is overwhemingly a place of students with socioeconomic means, even more so than the typical elite school. [/quote]

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