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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wealthy communities in America have children who spend millions of dollars prepping for SAT, millions of dollars for SAT tutors,  millions of dollars for SAT camps, millions of dollars on taking the PSAT and SAT multiple times before the 11 th grade, and millions of dollars for lawyers, psychologists and psychiatrists for the paperwork to get special privelages and accommodations when it comes to taking the SAT exam.  All these have an impact on SAT scores least of which is the educational advantages of high SES.

Poor communities do not have these opportunities since they can't afford them.

If you prepare extensively in this manner, take the SAT exam multiple times and get special accommodations to sit for these SAT exams; [b]the SAT scores will be higher and not lower[/b].  This is simple arithematic.  It is not complicated.  If a poor individual was only given the above, that SAT score will be higher -- independent of SES!!![/quote]
As someone who grew up poor and received extensive test prep through a program I was in I can tell you that you are wrong. All the paid for college trios, summer job opportunities, etc cannot make up for the basic lack of preparation starting from before preschool and the lack of exposure.  If I don't know basic things like what a mantel or a credenza or hummus because of basic lack of life exposure all the test prep in the world can reverse that basic lack of knowledge. If you are curious, I went to an exclusive prep school in NYC but grew up in housing projects near where Jay Z grew up.  You are debating out of anger and based on a theory that you have tested in your head but while I admire your energy you are wrong.[/quote]

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