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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Equity matters to uplift all DC students. There bright and capable kids all through DC schools but they shouldn’t be at a disadvantage compared to Deal or Hardy kids simply because their schools or SES do not give them the opportunities that UMC get.

To clear the “mystery” about the recommendation letters- Here is an idea: Last year Deal sent 41 kids to Walls- Maybe do some reasearch on what made them standout compared to their peers to get an interview at Walls beyond their GPAs.

Also- here is a reference to the link between SES and kids performance in standardized tests.
“A recent paper released by Opportunity Insights, a Harvard-based team of researchers and policy analysts, found that children of the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans were 13 times likelier than the children of low-income families to score 1300 or higher on SAT/ACT tests.” https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/11/new-study-finds-wide-gap-in-sat-act-test-scores-between-wealthy-lower-income-kids/
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Who wants to bet that higher SES correlates to higher GPA too.

The reality is that tests are the best way to identify strong lower SES kids who would benefit from more advanced programming and who don’t have the resources to supplement outside school or divert to a private school in the event they don’t get into a selective HS. Those are the kids who are hurt the most by the lack of an objective testing standard. (That’s why selective colleges have brought back the SAT/ACT!)[/quote]

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