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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why have we decided to wave a wand and fast track first gen status? For generations, plenty of immigrants worked in menial jobs and worked their way up. God knows in our family, that was the case.

If a student is stellar and happens to be first gen, then great. I would not want to see a repeat of when our  parents and grandparents were *blocked* from great universities even when they were stellar. But a fast-track JUST because of first gen status? Instead, how about filling the universities with our best and brightest regardless of their "story."
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This is like saying that it’s unfair that’s there’s a vaccine for a particular illness, because that vaccine didn’t used to exist, and therefore it’s unfair that it exists now. Is it?

Students who are first gen, on average do not have the same exposure to college that students with college-educated parents have. Many first gen students do not know how the admissions process works, while most college-educated parents are able to help their kids through it. Look at the threads on here of parents strategizing about ECs, the SAT and early decision, combined with the knowledge those parents already have, and passing it onto their kids. Most first gen kids are on their own; their high schools tend to lack “college counselors” and only have guidance counselors who have bigger fish to fry, like making sure students graduate, and do not have a lot of college-educated individuals to look to in their communities. How do you know if you want to be an engineer, doctor, botanist etc if you’ve never gotten to chat with someone who is in one of those professions?

Hopefully what I wrote makes sense.[/quote]

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