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[quote=Anonymous]I am the person upthread who mentors first-gen students.

My take on it is that first-gen kids from big cities (NY, SF, Boston) tend to be better-prepared, heavily because big cities tend to have magnet schools and scholarship programs for prep schools that both create networks and prepare kids for academic rigor well before kids get there.  That is part of why getting into Stuyvesant (which is about 50% FARMS) is a golden ticket for many poor immigrant kids--it gives you access to Stuy's alumni network which is full of people who have been through elite colleges and can give good advice... as well as prepares you for any university academically before you arrive. Same thing with Prep for Prep, which prepares kids from minority groups to attend prep schools on scholarships for high school, giving them preparation on every level before they start.

It is the poor kids from smaller cities and towns that have more trouble adjusting because they don't have those opportunities to expand their network and they don't have as many opportunities to prepare themselves academically.  They're limited by their local high school.[/quote]

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