Kids of parents making $158.2-222.4k/yr have worst odds of Ivy League acceptance
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Re: Kids of parents making $158.2-222.4k/yr have worst odds of Ivy League acceptance
#2Moderators, the link is corrupt. It’s presumably meant to be:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/college-acceptance-r...
Re: Kids of parents making $158.2-222.4k/yr have worst odds of Ivy League acceptance
#3>Roughly a quarter of the admissions advantage stems from athlete recruitment: Other studies reveal that athletes tend to hail from high-income families. Years of access to private lessons, club sports, better facilities, and niche teams (water polo, golf, squash, fencing) make a bigger difference than most people realize. The final 31 percent of the very-rich advantage comes from colleges judging these children to be stronger in nonacademic categories. That makes sense since they have greater access to extracurricular activities and leadership opportunities
On one hand using anything other than final, school leaving, standardized at country-level exams that are fair and transparent
feels like wanting to introduce shitton of bias and lack of fairness and transparency
but on the other hand pure academic capability/output isn't perfect proxy for success and it seems like fancy higher edu institutions want to 'create' successful people, right?
ehh, while im standing behind #1 option, then #2 aint stupid
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>Marie currently attends a university that did not make the U.S. News & World Report list of top-50 public schools. Amanda tells me, “She’s happy but often says, ‘Mom, I just wish I hadn’t studied. I would have gotten into the exact same schools.’” And Marie is probably right.
This is fucking sad, imo.
She didnt teach her the purpose of eduction, of studying, what the hell.
You don't study to get better grades, to get better scores, to get to better school.
That's just a means to an end
Re: Kids of parents making $158.2-222.4k/yr have worst odds of Ivy League acceptance
#4Not rich enough to get an economic advantage or poor enough to get Diversity priority.
Re: Kids of parents making $158.2-222.4k/yr have worst odds of Ivy League acceptance
#5But i don't want my kids going to ivy League. I want them to study what they need to know, have fun, and explore. We aren't rich, and they know that, and that level of stuffy education would be better in graduate or post grad, when they pay you to study there.
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#6> She went on to explain that the couple didn’t make enough money to be considered potential donors
When my kid went to college the development office started shmoozing before said kid had even chosen his classes.
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#7> I will tell you they have no fucking chance of getting in anywhere unless they have a legacy.
What about schools that don't do legacies, like MIT?
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#8> She went on to explain that the couple didn’t make enough money to be considered potential donors When my kid went to college the development office started shmoozing before said kid had even chosen his classes.
Is that an humble brag?
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#9> She went on to explain that the couple didn’t make enough money to be considered potential donors When my kid went to college the development office started shmoozing before said kid had even chosen his classes.
Is that an humble brag?
Not intended as so (and anyway I am not a likely donor). I was just surprised that they didn't waste a moment and got right down to it.
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#10But i don't want my kids going to ivy League. I want them to study what they need to know, have fun, and explore. We aren't rich, and they know that, and that level of stuffy education would be better in graduate or post grad, when they pay you to study there.
That was my conclusion as teen too. I went to in-state to a Big-10 school with one of the automatic merit scholarships based on ACT/SAT scores. Still got a great job out of college and moved out west to work at a FAANG (they recruited at my university). Pretty much a top outcome money wise I would've gotten at MIT (where I did get in).