<p>The only thing I'm dreading about going to college (and this is a biggie since I've been planning for this for, oh, 14 years) is being around a bunch of rich kids. Seriously. I grew up in a very low income home ($24,000 / 5 people) and I've worked a part time job for two years already... four by the time I go to college. I'm not saying I'm anything special, but people from low-income families - or not even that, just kids with part-time jobs - have a different awareness of reality than wealthy kids and kids who have never worked a day in their lives.</p>
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but people from low-income families - or not even that, just kids with part-time jobs - have a different awareness of reality than wealthy kids and kids who have never worked a day in their lives.
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<p>That's not true for all of us...</p>
<p>Nope, and it isn't true for all students who are low-income / have worked.</p>
<p>thats pretty broad generalization there, and a tad bit discriminatory..</p>
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:rolleyes: This reminds me of a quote from BBT:
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Raj: "You know if I wanted to spend my Saturday nights doing this, I could have stayed in India."</p>
<p>Howard: "Stop with the fake third world crap. Your father is a gynecologist, and you had a houseful of servants."</p>
<p>Raj: "We only had four servants, and two of them were children!"*</p>
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...why is why adcoms consider work experience in admissions.</p>
<p>bump........</p>
<p>I think people are misinterpeting what it means to be wealthy. If your family makes 200K or more you are not gettting aid even at the top Ivies, a family like this is not wealthy trust me. Several of my friends are at this level and we hang out do stuff all the time, and they are not wealthy. In fact I don't think people become wealthy until they hit about 500K because lower than that they are just upper middle class and act, dress, and do all the stuff regular kids do.</p>
<p>I agree, $200K is 2 parents earning $100K each, that's definitely not rich. If they lived in New York City, for instance, half their income would go to taxes and their housing would probably cost $50K/year for something decent but not fabulous. Plus they would have lost half their investments in the last year. Yet now they'll have to pay full tuition for their kids in order subsidize other people who probably haven't worked as hard!</p>
<p>In some ways, wealthy is a subjective term. For my family and to a family in my area, $200k is filthy rich. We make $24k! But in NY, I guess it's not... but there are a lot of people making $24k or less (that guy who works at your grocery store? him) in NY and who manage to make a living.</p>
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Haha, I can tell you're not in college yet. There is a significant class divide at many colleges, and it's usually lower than $500K.</p>
<p>Idk about this class divide. From the experiences of people who went to top schools from our high school only one reported a class issue. But he was black and at Duke so race may have been a factor as well. </p>
<p>For one I do not know how people will know who is rice and who is not. I mean if I am just walking down the street then people wouldn't know what my family has. I plan on working for spending money during college but I just don't think that this issue will be much of an issue.</p>
<p>Isn't there some sort of stat on this that is readily available such as pct of students who have need based FA, eg, or avg amt of FA award? Presumably, lower pcts here wf indicate a more wealthy student body.</p>
<p>wealth depends on where you live. also, "wealthy" kids can have part-time jobs. just because a family is well off doesn't necessarily mean that the child has no concept of money. i hate generalizations like that.</p>
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You clearly didn't bother to read the whole thread.</p>
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Sociologists would say otherwise. Wealth and social status are determined by income, educational status, and career. A person does not fall out of the top 5% wealth bracket simply because he moves to California.</p>
<p>At HYP, the yield dynamic pushes the kids of people who have both wealth and achievement there. You don't think about it, but where would the kid go whose parents are both leading astrophysicists. Or kids whose parents are both faculty at a top university. Or kids whose dad is coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers or owner of the Patriots or whose mom is a top executive of Citibank (when that was still a job) or dad a congressman. You have to allow for the fact in such a great country there are so many forms of attainment that the children of attainment are the larger part of who you will meet there. Rich, you probably wouldn't know who was really rich if you were their roommate, because they don't discuss it.</p>
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<p>I'd like to see the data for the usnr LACs 30-100 - anyone have it?</p>
<p>i agree with anissa… where i live everyone is pretty well off yet the vast majority of kids have part time jobs and even though they are working for themselves and not to help support their family they still have jobs…also many of my friends, myself included, have parents that make enough money that they could spoil us but instead teach us the value of money and make us earn our money</p>
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<p>They don’t consider it to the extent that they should. I have made this statement in the past when I lamented the fact that I worked many weeknights for supplementary income during high school. If I had it to do all over again, I’d rather have not worked and just participated in some more extracurriculars. None of my peers that made it into an ivy-type school had a high school job.</p>
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<p>If your father truly makes that much, it’s pretty ****ty of him to make you pay most of your tuition.</p>
<p>Unless he just started making that much money, he should have a college fund set up for you and your siblings.</p>