<p>So any experts on low-income?</p>
<p>How do low-income and over-represented minority work out? Do they cancel each other out? </p>
<p>low-income and minority status is a definite plus.....anything else?</p>
<p>Does Low-Income help? given good scores for ivies? Don't they "want more poor ppl"?</p>
<p>Yes, low income does help.</p>
<p>And it is impossible to gauge low income vs over-represented minority because it's not like colleges are like "Hey! Low income! Plus five points! Oh...over-represented minority...minus five points." You can't measure something like that.</p>
<p>Anyone wanna add something else regarding low-income and Ivys etc..?</p>
<p>i was low income and applied to many competitive colleges with subpar scores yet good ecs. In the end I got into Cornell, pwl at Carnegie Mellon and waitlist at Chicago. I also got into NYU, and a few others.</p>
<p>I don't think that it helps THAT much. I think they'll take it into small consideration. The only time it helps is if you are like on welfare, or some income that you don't want to be living on (<$20,000).</p>
<p><20k huh?
so that helps?</p>
<p>Low income helps most when coupled with urm and bad inner city school.</p>
<p><20k means less than $20000</p>