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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was told that in creating their "ideal" and well-rounded/diverse class, colleges like to have a public high school represented from every state, including the District.  I have heard colleges like to take students from Wilson, where possible, because it allows them to check the "DC public" box.  Who knows if this is true or not, but it's possible.  [/quote]

It’s true.
Diversity is valuable for kids in college- and given the large number of legacies and rich kids who get in without having  the academic chops, the hardest diversity to add is socioeconomic diversity.  So HYS do look to add kids from every state.

I went to a HYS and we used to joke about this.  Also I probably learned more from a single kid who grew up lower middle class in SD than all the airhead rich kids put together.  (But I also did learn a lot about how rich people think.  Having a range of SES represented is really important for education.  It would just have been a lot better if there were 10x fewer rich kids and 10x more lower-SES kids.)[/quote]

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