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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach in a Title 1 school and the rigor and workload is definitely lacking. Teachers are basically begging students to show up and hand in any work. If one of my high fliers went to a top school, the workload would crush them. [/quote]

This is a helpful perspective. I teach a course at a "directional" university and the students who struggle the most each term seem to be from title 1 schools. It's frustrating because it's a very easy course. Yet I still find myself giving extensions because a good 25% of the students simply cannot be bothered to turn materials in on time (if at all). [/quote]

They lack discipline and work ethic.  That’s why they should serve in the Army or Marine Corps before they go to college. [/quote]

I was a LMC rural school admit to an Ivy, I had a very hard time and I of course majored in a “hard” major because I needed a practical degree that would translate to a job when I graduated.

Student loans for law or med school would mean borrowing more than my parents house was worth — completely unfathomable.

I really wish my school had made me do a year at a prep school — I know that happens to a few people who are admitted, maybe it’s something they do for recruiter athletes?  I don’t know who would pay for it — my parents certainly didn’t have the money, but I wish they had looked at my transcript — realized my school offered zero AP or IB courses and realized even though I was smart and tested well, I had never been challenged academically in my school career.  Suddenly with real expectations and the need triage, i prioritized the wrong things: I used to just read the text then do the homework — I was very bad at taking class notes and our lectures were generally useless anyways. But college classes often have limited text resources and the lectures ARE the course, and I couldn’t capture what was said in a useful way. [/quote]

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