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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you get your kid into a good school district and live in a good neighborhood. That’s great for your kids. They have that as an advantage. It’s much larger an advantage than a few points on a adversity score. So shut up! I’m sick of the argument about MC getting the shaft.

Also, If you are too poor to pay for college you would actually qualify for financial aid. So stop whining about that. College is expensive. It’s also optional. This isn’t new.

[b]The only people getting shafted are kids who are born into poverty. [/quote][/b]

The kids born into poverty get free money for college. [/quote]

And free breakfast and lunch at school, and access to mentoring and tutoring programs, and free SAT prep, and free or reduced rate travel sports, and many, many other social programs that are intended to level the playing field.

Yes, UMC and UC kids, especially white kids, do have advantages.  What gets old is the failure to acknowledge that many poor kids are getting help -- or at least have access to help -- at many, many points along the way.  If those efforts to help aren't working, let's work to fix it earlier -- as early as possible.  College admission time is, in my opinion, too late.

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While that sounds reasonable -- I think your main concern is making sure college admissions isn't affected for your kids.  And I'm not sure its ever too late to try to level the playing field.  Besides we are talking about the higher achieving poor kids being helped by this, so college admissions is not too late for them.[/quote]

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