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Add me to the list of counterexamples to your claim. While my family was more lower-middle-class than poor, I was (evidently, according to the financial aid off
by BadCookie 5y ago
Add me to the list of counterexamples to your claim. While my family was more lower-middle-class than poor, I was (evidently, according to the financial aid office) the poorest person in my graduating class. And my SAT score was likely the reason for that. (I increased my score by 200 points to a perfect score using practice books.) I was also admitted to Harvard but didn’t attend because of the insufficient (at the time) financial aid that was offered.
- dominotw 5y ago> I increased my score by 200 points to a perfect score using practice books. what motivated you to do this at the time ? Also, I never said its not possible to do it with practice books. > I would say the environment, social/parental expectations, exemplars within family/friends, peers ect matter more than a book. my point was the word "more" in that sentence.
- Erik816 5y agoWhat motive would you need beside "a higher score gets me into better schools"? Surely someone smart enough to get a perfect SAT score can figure that out pretty easily.
- dominotw 5y agoI guess what i meant was why gp had this motivation while their peers didn't, what is the difference.
- BadCookie 5y agoLate replying, but I readily admit that supportive parents and a school subculture that valued academics were both factors. I didn’t mean to suggest that I single-handedly pulled myself up by my bootstraps. But the SAT was the main path I had to stand out in applications as a public-school-educated person from a rural place you’ve never heard of.
- maeil 5y agoClearly nature. No reason to keep this as an elephant in the room.