Techinical Questions of the Childhood information section

[Ellie Arroway]

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Hi! I had a could technical questions on the childhood information section.

1) For the question "What was the income level of your family during the majority of your life from birth to age eighteen?", should I include or exclude disability/SSI income? The non-disability income is low enough (~$14k) that disability payments would put me in the next category up.

2) In the area about how I paid for school, how precise does this need to be? Can I estimate, or do I need to go find all of my tuition billing statements? For 4 institutions over the course of 10 years?

Thanks if you can help.

 

[Ironmandoc]

Just estimate. It is more for diagnostic/demographics than anything. My childhood household income ranged from about 0 for a couple years to 6 figures...so yeah just estimate lol

Good luck

 

[syoung]

I have a similar situation, divorced parents, lived between two states through 16. Didn't have income issues, but to estimate income during childhood? Who the hell do I put?.... I just put don't know.

 

[Ellie Arroway]

Ok. I think I was working with an assumption that this was a measure to find people from underrepresented SES categories, and that maybe it could have a direct effect on admissions - and would probably be subject to potential audit. But if I am totally wrong on that, then ok.

 

[Praefectus]

You wouldn't be audited. It's rough estimates so that they could get a clearer picture of your background, I guess.