this post compelled me to look at Swarthmore, and the first thing I saw was this: “Swarthmore College has sent letters of admission to 980 prospective members of the Class of 2022. Twenty-four percent of the admitted students are among the first generation in their family to attend college, and thirty-three percent are affiliated with local and national community-based organizations like QuestBridge. Sixty-five percent of the admitted students come from public and/or charter schools, 23 percent from private independent schools, 11 percent from parochial schools, and one percent are home schooled. Ten percent of all students are from schools overseas. Swarthmore expects to yield a first-year class of about 420 for next fall.”
This is why…it isn’t your work, there is a big push for first gen and URMs and if you don’t fall into that category, it hurts you