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[quote=Anonymous]I think it was one episode of [i][b]This American Life[/b][/i], with a low-income student theme, but I could be confusing two similar episodes for one. Top students at an awful inner-city school spend the day at a pricey Ivy prep school (Fieldston), then it gives an update on their life like 5 years later?

1 — poor Black girl, really assertive personality, no. 1 in her inner-city high school and has big dreams. Update is she never went to college, just ended up broke and trapped working dead-end gig at Whole Foods. She's said in retrospect she realized she wasn't smart, her school was just low performing, which gave her delusions of grandeur.

2 — poor Black boy and girlfriend each win 100% full ride financial aid to the same SLAC. Boy skips classes, doesn't study, doesn't ask for help...is kicked out for failing too many classes. He didn't fully grasp the college kicked (counseled) him out, so he returned after Christmas break and his dorm key didn't work and they told him to leave campus. In contrast, the girlfriend studied hard, thrived and graduated.

3 — counselor bent over backwards to get another Black girl get into I think it was Williams College? 100% free full ride. She quit after a semester to move back near her boyfriend in the ghetto and went to a junior college nursing program instead.

4 — inner-city kid gets full ride to Choate boarding school in NJ for 9th-12th. like basically a $200,000 lottery ticket. his piece of garbage drug addict mom wouldn't let him go!

Just heartbreaking content.[/quote]

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