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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]can work against you. Too many type A parents think if they buy a house in "the Best" district, their kid will be at an advantage. Same goes for Specializes HSs, the pool of kids is very hard to compete against, and you may or may not know, top colleges evaluate apps BY SCHOOL. So if 30 kids from the same HS apply to Harvard, they are all compared against each other. The same kid who did extremely well, but not tops, could have lived 10 miles away in a "mediocre" SD, and had much better odds. [/quote]

You literally don't know what you're talking about. More importantly, admission to school is only one part of the equation -- high school should prepare you to succeed in college. And a mediocre school is less likely to do that than a top school.

But this notion that the same proportion of kids from a mediocre school are going to be accepted at a top university as the proportion from a top high school is just false and wishful thinking. It really doesn't work that way. [/quote]

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