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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like this podcast on This American Life. The schools were so vastly different that when the poor kids saw the difference they had trouble coping and one dropped out of school even. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/550/three-miles [/quote]

Is this the one where the "smart" girl is later found working at Whole Foods? Sadly, she was right when she said "Maybe I was just smart, at my school, but I wasn't actually smart-smart." That is most frequently the case. Awful publics leave students soooooo far behind. Unless a kid has been a crazy voracious reader for 10 years and dual enrolled at the local college, they can't hang with smart peers at a strong university. It's just a fact. 13 years of crappy education just leaves too many holes in your education.

There was another This American Life on inner-city college admissions. The guidance counselor at a Brooklyn public school got his "smartest" student into Williams, I think, on a full ride. She flunked out, went home, went to community college to be a nurse.[/quote]

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