<p>@rhandco:</p>
<p>Being poor and having the advantages that most upper-middle-class families have, maybe you mean. Most poor kids are too culturally disconnected and have too deficient an education thanks to their K-12 system to be attractive to the top schools.</p>
<p>Also, I won’t say that you can’t buy your way in at all schools. At the elite schools, you can’t unless your family is donating 7-8 figures maybe, but as you go down the totem pole in selectivity, the more it is that being full-pay is helpful.</p>