"Personal Context" and its Role in Holistic Admission

austinmshauri
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:31:56 +0000

I think context matters. A kid who has top stats in spite of coming from a low income family and whose main ECs are working to help support their family or taking care of younger siblings (cooking, etc.) while parents work is probably going to be looked at differently than a high stats student from an upper income family who has all the time in the world to study. How they present their story matters.