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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real world bears very little resemblance to the population of most “preferred“ pyramids in northern Virginia.  My personal opinion is that kids benefit more from exposure to those who are different (both racially/ethnically and socio-economically) than they do from exposure to those who are the same.  [/quote]

People don’t really want a “real world” experience, which is why we see them typically praising low-rated schools by pointing to the handful of students from those schools who end up attending elite colleges that are even less representative of the general population than the high school pyramids in NoVa.[/quote]

Very few end up at elite colleges at the lower ranked schools. Many of the brightest end up at GMU or NVCC because they can't pay to live away. Better colleges aren't discussed since they are not on most kids' radar.[/quote]

Which is exactly why Justice or Wakefield kids coming from families where better colleges [u]are[/u] on the radar and that [u]do[/u] have the means to pay, have an advantage in the admission process.  There are fewer applicants to the best colleges from those schools.[/quote]

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