> What are students who come from a less privileged background to do, self select out of good programs?
In my experience, more or less, yeah... self-select out and get to work as soon as possible. I worked through most of high school and all of college. Almost decided against college entirely (money fears), but I'm glad I changed my mind.
There's no way I was going to an Ivy League and studying 40 hours or more a week. Years later and I still can't imagine living for a period of time where I have more than 2 weeks of work off. I've been working since I was 14.
I went to a decent school, had decent-ish grades, and tried to get paid to do as much relevant work as possible.
I still dream about having the ability to take a few years off to study. Must be incredible.
In my experience, more or less, yeah... self-select out and get to work as soon as possible. I worked through most of high school and all of college. Almost decided against college entirely (money fears), but I'm glad I changed my mind.
There's no way I was going to an Ivy League and studying 40 hours or more a week. Years later and I still can't imagine living for a period of time where I have more than 2 weeks of work off. I've been working since I was 14.
I went to a decent school, had decent-ish grades, and tried to get paid to do as much relevant work as possible.
I still dream about having the ability to take a few years off to study. Must be incredible.