Qualified Applicant Rejected from All Schools

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<p>I don’t deny that money makes designing the “perfect college app” much easier. But I also think that kids with money are held to a different standard than kids without money - not a higher one, but different things are expected of them. It’s about what you do with your opportunities, not what opportunities you have been given. Of course there will always be a few kids in situations that simply cannot be overcome enough to do well in school, and for that I am truly sorry.

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<p>The fact remains that top schools are dominated by the wealthy. From that fact alone, it is clear that though adcoms do weigh socioeconomic status, the extracurricular opportunities that wealth enables outweigh such a boost.</p>

<p>At Brown and Penn, for example, the majority of students do not receive financial aid - we’re talking about people whose families make more than ~120k+.
Schools like HYP do offer more financial aid, but that is because their endowments are so enormous that they routinely give financial aid to students whose families make six-figures.</p>

<p>[Relative</a> to peers, U.?s financial aid lags behind - The Brown Daily Herald - Serving the community daily since 1891](<a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/relative-to-peers-u-s-financial-aid-lags-behind-1.2734605#.UAkNLKOd58E]Relative”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/relative-to-peers-u-s-financial-aid-lags-behind-1.2734605#.UAkNLKOd58E)
<a href=“https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/business/economy/25leonhardt.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all[/url]”>https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/business/economy/25leonhardt.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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On another note… I’ve resolved this misunderstanding with the OP, so why do you care? Doesn’t involve you.

I care about logic.</p>