Student accepted into 27 schools, offered millions in scholarships

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Several of the Ivy Plus schools cover tuition for families that earn up to $125k, which is upper middle class. Some of the public universities in Texas cover families up to $60k, which is middle class and close to the median household income in Texas.

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This kid got into some highly selective schools, though. Sometimes, these stories involve applicants who were accepted by dozens of schools with acceptance rates above 50%. Of course if you apply to 100 less selective schools, you're going to get into a bunch of them.

$125k is upper middle class nationally, but it certainly isn't on a state-by-state basis. If you live in San Francisco or LA or San Diego for instance, this is required to be able to find a place to rent.  You can barely make it on $125k.

I hate stats like that, they have never applied to anyone I knew, as someone who was born and raised in CA.  Median home price, median income, none of it.