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Re:My One Day at Recurse Center by tptacek on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:00PM (#24169821)
Does RC fund students, or provide room and board? If not, how would you have been made "destitute"?
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Re:My One Day at Recurse Center by rcthrowaway on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:04PM (#24169859)
RC has grants for everybody that comes from a historically underrepresented background.
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Re:My One Day at Recurse Center by dandellion on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:42PM (#24170197)
What does constitute a historically underrepresented background to get a grant? Does that mean that grandparent might have been poor but not had access to a grant because they're not considered underrepresented according to RC criteria?
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Re:My One Day at Recurse Center by barry-cotter on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:48PM (#24170234)
Don’t be obtuse. You know it’s either race or sex based. If they were open to poor Indian or Appalachian men they’d mention that kind of thing explicitly.
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Re:My One Day at Recurse Center by RandomBacon on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:31PM (#24170103)
> historically underrepresented background.

Is that similar to Affirmative Action -based grants?

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