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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Screwed from getting into an Ivy in order to get a Federal job? Kids can go to GMU if they want to make $180K. I'm not sure of what we're being screwed out of.[/quote]

Ofc you know. It's kids who work just as hard as kids with hooks. Some of that is simply due to family circumstances (kids can't change the fact they're not first gen). And yet, other kids get preference -in terms of admittance and maybe aid- because of those things, and get them at top schools.

You think GMU or Radford or Nova are so great? Why don't you send your kid there? 
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I don't understand why people direct their bitterness toward the first gen ed kids and not the loaded legacy types. [/quote]

I'm the poster you are responding to and I was first gen, not that it got me anything. Grew up poorer than most people on here, I'd bet. Parents and grandparents were (immigrant, in grandparents case) factory and blue collar workers. Did well enough with no help from anyone, except loans and busting my a$$. And now my smart, hardworking kid who grinds it out is going to be disadvantaged, potentially, for me working up from poor to UMC.

Yeah, that's great. What a reward! Now IF kid gets in, I'll be full pay and work/pay it all over again.  [/quote]

Agree with this 100% [/quote]

Why do people think they are entitled to “poor emeritus” status where their family forever gets treated like a new immigrant’s or blue collar family when it doesn’t apply at all to their own kids?

They need psychological help to make them understand they are in fact now a rich person and will be treated according THEIR ACTUAL INCOME AND THE FACT THEIR KIDS ARE NOT FIRST GEN and not their sob story about how they worked their way up from nothing.

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You're a real dick. Not to mention some special type of smug a$$hole to come on here, discount people's upbringing and be the arbitrator of what you THINK they should be entitled to and what they should accept. [/quote]

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