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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by nfw2 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:29PM (#36522690)
All else equal, poor white kids probably get a leg up as well if they can articulate it in some way in their application.

For example, my (white) dad got into Yale and Princeton, and it probably helped that he was from a podunk town in Wyoming.

For a lot of poor white kids though, their situation isn’t obvious from their application.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by klyrs on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:17PM (#36524534)
Yep, I got some scholarships for being the first in my family to go to college, and also from the Dante Alighieri Society for my Italian heritage. They really didn't put much of a dent into tuition, and I worked full-time or took on loans for the rest. I wouldn't describe myself as "poor" but my parents were lower-middle class.
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