| -shrugshrugshrug- --> no?
I go to a highly ranked public high school. My parents and I immigrated to Canada when I was seven, and to the US when I was ten. We finally bought a house when I was in the middle of my freshman year. I took a pretty cool and inexpensive SAT prep class summer between my sophomore and junior year, but aside from that, it's not like my parents paid my way into anything.
My stats may not have been the best (heh, most of that was my fault, laziness and all), but it was good enough to get me into Dartmouth and Northwestern, with the latter giving me both financial aid and a scholarship, and the former matching that.
I mean, one of my better friends is going to Harvard (she is, undoubtedly, one of the most intelligent people I've met), and her parents don't make as much as mine do. Everything she's done has been by her own merits. Another acquaintance in school got into MIT and CalTech, the former on a full ride. Education is what you make out of it. Unless you're well below the poverty line, I don't think there are any excuses. |