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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA can find poor kids from Richmond and Newport News.  They don't need Herndon kids to fill that niche. [/quote]

Richmond and Tidewater also have rich kids. Plus it’s easier to stand out at a FCPS poor high school. [/quote]

Nah, plenty of poor kids in FCPS but most aren't UVA/VT material.  [/quote]

The way to cheat was to intentionally enroll an upper middle income kid into a school with a lot of poor kids, so that the UMI kid stands out and fill the admission statistics of low SES schools.   So it doesn't matter whether poor kids in those schools are "UVA/VT material".  Because the approach is only about the UMI kid.

I don't believe this tactics work WITHIN FCPS, but it is possible for it to work when you move an UMI kid from NOVA to a poor school such as <insert rural VA place here>.  But that's kind of desperate to just get in UVA/VT.   Usually people do that for getting into Ivy League.  I read many years ago about an article about people in California do it by moving to Nevada for the senior year. [/quote]

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