<p>I never realized it, but our annual income is $24,000~.</p>
<p>Is this significant?</p>
<p>You should qualify for Pell Grants and perhaps SEOG as well. This can only help you in that many select schools are actively recruiting students of low income......you. Good Luck</p>
<p>If you're white or Asian, it will do a good bit of helping. If you are Hispanic, black, or any other URM, you've just reaped the benefits of liberal guilt and lower-class origin!</p>
<p>No, what I meant was that colleges usually give poor people a slight advantage when it comes to admissions.</p>
<p>How much does my chances improve for going to college? Lets say I had a 20% chance of getting accepted if I was middle-upper class. Then what is the chance of me getting accepted with our real income?</p>
<p>And yeah, I'm Asian.</p>
<p>Hmm.. maybe my Asianness and poorness will cancel each other out?</p>
<p>You won't get as many advantages as, say, a minority group that is stereotypically unsuccessful, but coming from a low income family will provide you with loads of scholarships, and a bit of an easier chance of getting in.</p>
<p>IVYs don't give scholarships..........just need based financial aid.</p>
<p>Bumping this.</p>
<p>I'm white and my family annual income is barely 20K so in helping for college, I got no loans or grants or scholarships yet. I hope I will soon. Other than that, It could help for admissions I guess, but for me I don't think it really made a difference.</p>
<p>You have the greatest thread title EVER...</p>
<p>you just found out your poor?
24K is well below the poverty line, how could you not know?</p>
<p>well have you taken any jobs to help alleviate the financial burden that Im assuming your family might have had? </p>
<p>I am actually in the same situation as you. My family income is around 24,000 for a family of 4. Did you mention it in any of your essays, etc?</p>
<p>Omfg, oh yeah! I come from a family of 6! (Except everyone moved to college but me and my parents)</p>
<p>Dang, maybe I should get a job somewhere (never had to) for a little while... or say that I was willing to live scarecely because I thought that community service was more important?</p>
<p>It's going to be hard passing myself off as really that poor because we're not. Technically though, we are below poverty.</p>
<p>what are you doing on a computer?</p>
<p>We have plenty of money. I think it's just that my parents cheat taxes, lol. I can still say that I am legally poor with evidence.</p>
<p>did you apply to any low income programs, etc?</p>
<p>Oh, so you're manipulating the system for your own needs?</p>
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We have plenty of money. I think it's just that my parents cheat taxes, lol. I can still say that I am legally poor with evidence.
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<p>lol the admin can track u down with ur ip, know what town u live in, check incomes with 24000 or lower, report u to irs and boom</p>
<p>ur pretty much screwed and trust me dont use that</p>