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if you're smart enough to get into an elite university, you're smart enough to get a full ride at an upper tier but not elite university. And if your parents h
by FT_intern 10y ago
if you're smart enough to get into an elite university, you're smart enough to get a full ride at an upper tier but not elite university.
And if your parents had a high enough income where you had to pay full tuition, then you already enjoyed an upper middle class upbringing.
It's a slight disadvantage and not the difference between going to Harvard and not going to college at all.
- CydeWeys 10y ago> if you're smart enough to get into an elite university, you're smart enough to get a full ride at an upper tier but not elite university. [citation needed]. Full-ride merit scholarships are quite rare. Here's an article from 2011 that says that only 20K full ride scholarships are awarded annually across the entire US, and only 0.3% of all students get a full ride (either from any individual scholarship or a combination of them). http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-rare-are-full-ride-scholarships/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-rare-are-full-ride-scholarsh...