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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wilson transitioning to mostly white will help these students for a bit considering its urban reputation. It will be a decade before the colleges realize that the DC of old is changing. [/quote]

It will be sooner. Have you read about the SAT's new adversity scores for each student based on school data and census tract information? It was in the NYTimes last week. Swing by the DCUM College board for the ranting rather than doing it here. [/quote]

Did it occur to you guys that when colleges look for urban kids they are literally looking for kids who grew up in a city environment, take public transportation and have some street smarts, to add to the suburban and rural kids they also take? Wilson kids are urban kids.[/quote]

Oh that’s funny, thought your last line was a typo. Because Wilson is a suburban school. Just as suburban as the one I went to in anothe city’s suburbs. Only DCUM would make a point of how “urban” it is, lol! The mean streets of UNW.[/quote]

Urban =/= "mean streets" or "the hood," and colleges checking boxes for urban kids are not doing so to pull at risk kids off the "mean streets." The 'urban' kids at many colleges are wealthy New Yorkers and kids from ritzy city zip codes.

Urban: adjective
relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area  • urban development
located in or characteristic of a city

Also, about a quarter of the city is zoned for Wilson and another 40% of Wilson students live beyond that zone. Wilson educates 20% of DCPS high school students. The physical location may not have skyscrapers since no part of DC does, but many of the tallest residential buildings in DC are zoned for Wilson, most Wilson students do not live in suburban style, single family homes, very few of them drive, and all of them can get around town using public transportation. They did not spend most of their youth having breakfast and dinner in Mom's minivan.[/quote]

DP NW and really most of DC looks like any other suburb or even less dense event the so called ghetoo areas.  There are almost no real apartment tower skyscrapers in DC.  Also most of the folks in the SFH areas of NW aren't going to Wilson they are going to private school.[/quote]

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