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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if you don't apply for financial aid when applying, most t50 will NEVER allow you to apply for financial aid. Not when you lose your job or when a sibling goes off to college. Don't be foolish.

Need blind colleges are need blind. Need aware are need aware.

if you're mom or dad has been in CS for an entire career, believe me .. all schools are totally okay with that. even if you do want to go into CS.  It may show "lack of creativity" but it also shows a depth of understanding. Colleges can also wonder if you come from a artsy family or finance family and want to go into engineering, do you really know what an engineer day to day life looks like?  And where pay tops out?

Don't over think this stuff. [/quote]

If you really don't need aid, there's absolutely no reason to complete the SSN. That's a personal family decision, dictated by finances. No one can answer that one for you.

I think your reasoning on occupation works for state flagships. Its naive for top tier schools. This is not how AO at selective privates think when they are looking for a "compelling" (not just a competitive) candidate. Your kid is not compelling if he's following in your footsteps and will be a hard story to sell at the AO table. At the end of the day, its about creating an interesting unique overarching compelling story. 
Yes, the kid has a depth of understanding. Yes, kid is a smart kid who knows what day to day engineering life looks like and where pay tops out. But that is not what gets you in to a selective college. At all.

Again - this is only relevant at private T20/T30 for the most part. Everyone should get educated about how this REALLY works. And then make your own personal educated decisions. There's a ton of information out there if you are willing to read up and learn.
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What kind of nonsense is this? Do you even have a kid at a T20 private college? I do, and his class is packed with affluent, non-legacy kids who aren't atypically "compelling" in any way. Unless they all lied on their apps, and this seems unlikely.  They're the usual kids of doctors, lawyers, and finance types from Bergen, Evanston, Fairfield, Bethesda, Mill Valley and Brookline. Accomplished in all the usual ways, affluent, mostly white or Asian. The Black students are usually from Ghana or Nigeria, not Flint, and they're also the children of doctors.

There is a sprinkling of FGLI kids, who often overlap with ROTC admits. Maybe this is who you mean when you imagine "compelling," but they're a statistically much smaller group.  [/quote]

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