<p>Ok, so do adcoms at really competitive schools (ivies, etc) view sat scores differently for people who are first gen versus those who are not? </p>
<p>For example, a friend of mine’s dad is a physicist who graduated from MIT and her mom is a psychiatrist and she got a 2330. My dad on the other hand is an immigrant who didn’t finish high school and my mom is a high school grad but didn’t go to college and I got a 2200. </p>
<p>The school’s we’re applying to overlap a bit but will colleges (like Yale, for instance) “expect” less of me, for instance, because of my background and wouldn’t be as likely to penalize me for not getting as high of a score as someone like my friend? </p>
<p>That’s my main question, but I guess my query about first gens can be a little bit more broad-based. Just how much does being a first-gen help at schools that are this competitive? Is it a significant boost like being an URM or not so much? </p>
<p>There are other examples I can think of, like, last year in honors physics, she was able to pull of a slightly better grade than me, but then again, she would have her father help her very often, a luxury I didn’t have. </p>
<p>So this is I guess just my rantings lol.
Any thoughts?</p>