<p>You think that makes it better, being one yourself? That makes it worse. I’m a first-gen, low-income student (yes, I applied through QB too), and I know for a fact that that wasn’t what got me into Stanford and other schools (if you’d like to know how I know this, send me a message; I’m not going to post this on a public forum). More than anything, you need to stop spreading the misconception that it isn’t the academic qualifications that get such a student in. They are the most important. Everything else is secondary. I’m sorry to hear that you have so little faith in your ability to get in without such. And if you’re truly disillusioned, please get far, far away from CC, the sooner the better–it’s this site that engenders that attitude, not the system itself, which I can assure you is not what you think it is. It’s that attitude that makes students who are attending think that they can’t do it, that they were chosen only because of X, Y, or Z, that they are inferior to their peers. Not only does it divide the campus, but it harms the students themselves.</p>
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