<p>Hi, I'm an inner city college freshman who's doing an english paper on urban kids applying to elite/ivy league colleges. I'd appreciate it if you could answer some questions for me:
1) What are the names of the elites you are applying to and what major?
2) Why are you applying to these schools?
3) What are some reasons you feel that a lot of urban/minority kids don't apply to these schools?
4) What are some schools that other kids in your high school are applying to (whether elite or not)?</p>
<p>Yes, this is a serious paper and I'd appreciate any positive feedback as opposed to unnecessary posts. Thanks alot!!</p>
<p>Have you considered starting with doing a lit review on the topic?</p>
<p>I personally don't know what you would consider elite, but last year i had applied to ucla and ucsd. both for art majors. But the only reasons I applied to those where as back ups if i didn't get into the top schools for fashion design that i did end up getting into (Parsons, Pratt, and Otis). The only reasons i applied to the top fashion design schools where because for one i wanted the best education i can get in the major i wanted to pursue. You know, why go to a school that's not even known for the program. A lot of it also has to do with possible connections and what not.</p>
<p>A lot of the kids don't apply to these schools because for one the college counselors don't do their job. i was a peer counselor and actually got kids into colleges that without my help they would have never even applied because they didn't think they could go to college. a lot of them didn't have money and where scared of finances. a lot of the kids could leave their city to go to school mainly because of family. a lot of the kids simply didn't even have the idea of going to college, let a known know what schools are ranked high or what it consists of getting into them. Also at my high school many of the kids are just told don't worry about financial aid, just do good in school, which sounds very generic and not really motivating when you're a 9th grader, so they don't take that message seriously.</p>
<p>Going to a california high school, and it being inner city, alot of the kids didn't have the privilege to even consider a private school as an option due to financial reasons, so a lot of the elite colleges that kids where applying to only consisted of ucla and ucberkeley, but that consisted of probably like the kids in the top 10 percent of the class.</p>