<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I's be grateful for your input on my chances of being a QB finalist, being matched, or being accepted RD. I'm currently in the 11th grade. Here comes the snapshot of my life. </p>
<p>Family: For the past six years, my single mother has made between 30,000 and 40,000 dollars per year working two jobs, 6 to 7 days per week. We moved out of state last year and my mom hasnt found another job. So at the end of this year, my mom's assets will be $100,000 and her income will be $0. </p>
<p>Grades: I have a 3.9 UW GPA and got a 2300 on the SAT (single sitting). I will have taken 5 APs by the end of junior year. In 9th and 10th grade, I went to a competitive public school on the west coast. Now I go to a competitive public school in the Southern US and have a solid (but not exceptional) extracurricular record. I worked for a month last summer before we moved and will work again this summer.</p>
<p>My main doubt about my QB chances comes from my family background.</p>
<p>Our income looks like nothing now, but before the drop in income that occurred about 6 years ago, my family was solidly middle class. I know that 77 percent of match finalists were first generation college students, but my mom went to college and used to have a "professional" career. </p>
<p>I feel like my family's finances mean that I have encountered more challenges than most other middle/upper middle class kids whom I know personally. However, I have not had to face the kind of challenges that a student whose family has experienced generations of poverty has to face. My mom always made it a priority to enroll me in the best public schools. I have the advantage of speaking English as a first language. I am not an underrepresented minority. I can't claim that the SAT is culturally biased against me or that I succeeded despite a rough school environment. </p>
<p>So the question is: Does a formerly middle class's family's financial misfortune count for as much as generations of cultural/social disadvantage?</p>
<p>Thanks for any input, guys!</p>