<p>Since it is now bumped, I advocate for affirmative action based off of socioeconomic background rather than race. That is all.</p>
<p>OK, awesome college, I have this awesome kid and am paying full tuition w/o financial aid. I’ll give you 7 days to decide to enroll him or I’m taking him elsewhere. You are not the only great school around! Clock is ticking and we are waiting for your answer.</p>
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<p>This gives an enormous advantage to private school kids, where the counselors can help their kids through the college admissions process. At my public high school, my GC is burdened with 500 kids from all grades, and her biggest prioritiy is scheduling. She really doesn’t do anything in regards to college. Since I’m one of maybe 5 kids in my grade aggressively pursuing non-instate publics, I’ve found a counselor extremely helpful in pointing out colleges I wouldn’t have otherwise heard of (despite being a CC poster) and in letting me know what colleges are realistic and aren’t (whereas my GC, regardless of what my SAT scores turn out to be, would have advocated Harvard). </p>
<p>Just remember that there’s no real way to standardize opportunities. And private counselors cannot change a kid’s accomplishments.</p>
<p>All schools should work together and have everyone apply under the common app and have every student rank the schools they apply to in order so that everyone has a better chance of going to their top school because schools won’t have to accept 10,000 applicants when only 3,000 attend, it would make the process for applicant for us much easier but make it more difficult for admissions.</p>