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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that many admissions offices would like to favor low-income smart kids from high poverty schools. However on the high school end, I think the experience is not there to drive a steady stream of students to competitive universities. Imagine the first one as DCPS vs MCPS. A low income DCPS might present more sympathetically than an MCPS school, generically. On the second one however the counselors in a DCPS know how to get kids into the pipeline regularly. So I think that it’s a wash. [/quote] True high poverty or rural schools also sometimes struggle to turn out "good" candidates for tippy top schools because they don't have the curriculum in place to demonstrate rigor and rigor is more emphasized now than it ever was, even more so than just GPA.[/quote]
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