<p>I and my family are way below the poverty line, I have ADHD, and I am homeschooled. I've applied to several Ivy Leagues (Cornell,Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton )and some other safety schools (Duke, Vandy, etc). I've looked at some other posts where they say that the colleges are need-blind and stuff like that, but I'm not sure if these apply to me-it looks like I have three strikes against me. I don't think all Ivy Leagues are liberal enough to tolerate homeschooling, and if I don't get full or near-full scholarships, then I can't go.</p>
<p>I guess my questions are: am I disadvantaged enough to get discriminated against in the admissions process? And do the Ivy League schools discriminate against homeschoolers?</p>
<p>Maybe I'm hyperventilating over nothing, but I really am anxious to know if I'm screwed or not.</p>
<p>need-blind applies to everyone. I know many successful kids who have been in homeschooling. And nobody should consider Duke and Vandy “safety schools” even with the most amazing life story, 4.0 UW GPA, and 2400 SAT I, and 10 perfect-score SAT IIs and aps. </p>
<p>If you don’t get in, it’s not because you’re below the poverty line, ADHD, or homeschooled. Actually, if you had those circumstaces and got over it successfully, that actually works huge for you, not against. </p>
<p>This post is a duplicate to another one the OP made that already has a string of replies. </p>
<p>This indeed is a duplicate thread with the exact same question, and OP already got answers.</p>
<p>I think OP is trying to reassure himself/herself that if s/he’s rejected, it won’t be because s/he made an unbalanced college list, but rather because of some bias from the colleges, because OP states:
No matter how extraordinary OP is, anyone considering Duke and Vanderbilt safeties is likely to be shut out come April.
On the other hand, someone calling Vanderbilt Vandy is enough in-the-know to know it is not a safety, so we might have a case of “bored kid on Spring Break”.</p>