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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has been true for decades. If you want an amazing education, send your kid to the “big 3”. If you are a double legacy with status and a sport, you will still get into an ivy. But if you’re a normal family and ivy is the goal, you’re much better off at something like an Alexandria or south Arlington public high school - where you can stand out more easily and you get the benefit of a high free lunch and very diverse population. Colleges love this. They act like they’re doing something good by taking “disadvantaged” kids from low scoring/failing high schools but really all they did was take one of the handful of UMC kids. That same kid at Langley would be 50/50 for UVA.[/quote]

This is so true.

I worked at a fairly large at-risk public high school with a speciality program and our top 5-7% were admitted into Ivy and T20 almost every year.  This is at a school where probably 80% of students graduate, and probably 40% or so go on to a 4 year university directly following high school. Getting in the top 5% would be incredibly easy for most academically focused families however I doubt the social, environmental and safety trade-off would be worth it for most.  These students typically were from great middle class families with single parent and recent immigrant families mixed in.  All of them were highly focused on academic success from what I recall.[/quote]

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