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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a myth that colleges want poor kids with screwed up lives.

They want mentally well adjusted kids who are prepared for college and can afford tuition. if that's how your daughter appears on paper, let them think that[/quote]

I agree with you in theory, but they want *diversity* and if this appears to be a rich white kid they might put them at the bottom of the list. Or maybe the endowments will be hurting by then and it helps? Who knows. [/quote]

They only want a certain type of diversity. They want racial and socioeconomic diversity. They don’t want kids with medical disabilities or kids who may be troubled because those kids may be hard for a college to accommodate.

My kid with medical issues didn’t mention any of them on their application for that reason. [/quote]

Interesting perspective. I wonder if there is any data to support that idea that they actually discriminate.[/quote]

In one episode, YCBK advised applicants to not discuss any mental health challenges they may have had in their essays. [/quote]

This. More than anything, colleges want kids who are likely to graduate on time and are likely to stay at the school without transferring/etc., and mental and physical health challenges highly reduce that likelihood.

Why are grad rates so important? Graduation rate is by far the single most heavily-weighted factor in the US News formula, and the next four heavily weighted are all variations of graduation and retention rates. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings

Even the metrics related to low-income students really only reward the school if they actually graduate those students.

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