Anonymous
06/15/2025 13:38
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
My kid’s Common App essay alluded to their South Asian heritage without being all about it.
Anonymous
06/15/2025 13:36
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
Anonymous wrote:I think FG is easy to indicate on the apps
LI isn't as easy, unless you're quite poor (HHI under 50k) and get a fee waiver. Or if you're working class (HHI under 100k) and in tune enough to qualify for one of the scholarships mentioned above.
URM only (not low income) isn't as transparent.. Name, sometimes. Or you have to indicate it in clubs and/or community essay.
Kid can ultimately get across LI through ECs (working jobs throughout has during school year); teacher and CC LOR and essays.
Did you ever read the brown table essay? Wow.
Anonymous
06/15/2025 12:50
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
There is also a large voluntary data disclosure section in College Board registration. I'm not sure if that data also gets disclosed via the College Board Landscape tool.
Anonymous
06/15/2025 12:32
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
I think FG is easy to indicate on the apps
LI isn't as easy, unless you're quite poor (HHI under 50k) and get a fee waiver. Or if you're working class (HHI under 100k) and in tune enough to qualify for one of the scholarships mentioned above.
URM only (not low income) isn't as transparent.. Name, sometimes. Or you have to indicate it in clubs and/or community essay.
LI isn't as easy, unless you're quite poor (HHI under 50k) and get a fee waiver. Or if you're working class (HHI under 100k) and in tune enough to qualify for one of the scholarships mentioned above.
URM only (not low income) isn't as transparent.. Name, sometimes. Or you have to indicate it in clubs and/or community essay.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 23:19
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FGLI is not difficult to figure out. Parent education is straight up asked in the app. Income level is estimated, possibly by algorithm, from census tract via the College Landscape tool used by most colleges, as well as parent occupation.
Is parent occupation part of the college app?
not required
If an applicant wants to signal FGLI status, or alternatively, wants to signal that they are full pay, then they will fill out this section.
Exactly. We were told how to fill it out to be most advantageous (full pay) - C-suite title is desirable.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 23:18
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FGLI is not difficult to figure out. Parent education is straight up asked in the app. Income level is estimated, possibly by algorithm, from census tract via the College Landscape tool used by most colleges, as well as parent occupation.
Is parent occupation part of the college app?
Yes. And place of education.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 22:46
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Zip code is pretty meaningless in urban areas.
They use census tract via the College Board Landscape Tool for the applicant.
in urban areas, demographics are very different even on census tract
Anonymous
06/14/2025 22:25
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
Unless they can get a full 4 year scholarship, college is becoming rich kids only.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 22:17
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
Anonymous wrote:Zip code is pretty meaningless in urban areas.
They use census tract via the College Board Landscape Tool for the applicant.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 20:26
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There are a number of organizations working with colleges including QuestBridge, A Better Chance, College Match, EducationUSA, Gear Up, Lenfest Scholars Foundation, Matriculate, Open Dreams, Our Moon Education, TeenSharp, etc. Your DC should look them up and work with these organizations.
You somehow missed the most important ones (other than Questbridge).
Thrive and LEDA feed a significant portion of the first gen low income students into these top colleges. Look at the the thrive scholars decisions page: https://www.instagram.com/thrivedecisions29?igsh=ZTZ6OXU1M2JxOXdp and there’s also this https://www.instagram.com/thrivedecisions2028?igsh=MWE2NWdxNnYwbGEzcQ==" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://www.instagram.com/thrivedecisions2028?igsh=MWE2NWdxNnYwbGEzcQ==. These organizations vet majority Asian/Black/Hispanic students at good high schools or with outstanding academic records and spend millions in resources with corporate sponsors to get them ready for top colleges and eventually top industries.
+1, fgli admissions is based around Thrive, LEDA, CollegeMatchLA, and then Questbridge
This is the answer. 40% of Thrive Scholars go to Ivies, and an even higher percentage of LEDA scholars go to Ivies. These programs have hundreds of millions of dollars funneled by corporate sponsors.
This is your answer OP
Anonymous
06/14/2025 19:36
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There are outside scholarships for kids of various races and they vet candidates, often by in-person interview.
OP I dont think these scholarships would be gained by this fall. but I could be wrong.
I'm working with some students now who dont want to write about this in their essay and, ugh, I think it's a missed opportunity bcs I dont know how else they signal what is a priority for some colleges still.
No, private scholarships can give their money to anyone they want. We haven't reached that level of fascism yet.
Many of these are directed at specific race groups (Native American being one) and/or FGLI.
They carry weight because the candidates are generally vetted to be who they say they are.
Illegal.
It's not. These are private scholarships.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 19:11
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There are outside scholarships for kids of various races and they vet candidates, often by in-person interview.
OP I dont think these scholarships would be gained by this fall. but I could be wrong.
I'm working with some students now who dont want to write about this in their essay and, ugh, I think it's a missed opportunity bcs I dont know how else they signal what is a priority for some colleges still.
No, private scholarships can give their money to anyone they want. We haven't reached that level of fascism yet.
Many of these are directed at specific race groups (Native American being one) and/or FGLI.
They carry weight because the candidates are generally vetted to be who they say they are.
Illegal.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 19:02
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
Zip code is pretty meaningless in urban areas.
Anonymous
06/14/2025 18:59
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Do AO see your zip code? Could be from demographic info there or from your high school?
How in the world would this be helpful.
College admissions is very much Big Data. There are datasets (Census, American Community Survey, & probably loads of privately collected ones), not difficult to link to zip code, with race or HHI (currently a proxy for race as there’s great disparity between, for example, whites & AA/black) or other demographic data that, taken together, can give someone a decent idea if someone is urm.
I would be shocked if universities are not using data science in admissions
Anonymous
06/14/2025 15:26
Subject: how is FGLI and URM picked up by AOs?
I think URM is picked up by essays and maybe clubs. Still is making a difference at our school, though maybe not as much as it was five years ago.