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[quote=Anonymous] Equity matters to uplift all DC students. There bright and capable kids all through DC schools but they shouldn’t be at a disadvantage compared to Deal or Hardy kids simply because their schools or SES do not give them the opportunities that UMC get.

To clear the “mystery” about the recommendation letters- Here is an idea: Last year Deal sent 41 kids to Walls- Maybe do some reasearch on what made them standout compared to their peers to get an interview at Walls beyond their GPAs.

Also- here is a reference to the link between SES and kids performance in standardized tests.
“A recent paper released by Opportunity Insights, a Harvard-based team of researchers and policy analysts, found that children of the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans were 13 times likelier than the children of low-income families to score 1300 or higher on SAT/ACT tests.” https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/11/new-study-finds-wide-gap-in-sat-act-test-scores-between-wealthy-lower-income-kids/
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