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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol equestrian at Brown is just another sleazy backdoor for really rich girls to get in.[/quote]

Nope. They did not have a problem with that. 
Did you want to go there 30 years ago and still feel better that they didn't want you?[/quote]

Ummm yes all these fancy sports do.  To be good at sports like squash and crew, most students attend expensive prep schools and then do camps they are also extremely expensive.  If you aren’t UMC you aren’t getting groomed for these sports.  [/quote]

I think you're actually the cliche. Someone who read "The Preppy Handbook" in 1983 and nothing since.[/quote]
Look at their high schools.   It’s 100 percent prep schools or [b]rich public schools like shaker heights high[/b], mainline philly, wellesley mass etc.  
Squash:
https://brownbears.com/sports/womens-squash/roster
https://brownbears.com/sports/mens-squash/roster

Fencing:
https://brownbears.com/sports/fencing/roster

Crew

https://brownbears.com/sports/mens-crew/roster
https://brownbears.com/sports/womens-crew/roster

Equestrian:
https://brownbears.com/sports/equestrian/roster

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Um... comparing Shaker to rich private schools that groom kids for equestrian competition is not quite right.  Shaker Heights is an inner ring Cleveland suburb, and Cleveland's inner ring suburbs have some of the lowest per capita usage of public schools of anywhere in the country.  There are a ton of UMC and some rich people there, but they don't use the public schools. Shaker is about like Wilson HS in DC, except that the percentage of low income students is slightly higher at Shaker.[/quote]

Shaker is an exception to this because it has remained both diverse and high performing.[/quote]

Shaker is a somewhat controversial example of a diverse high school to use. It's located in a suburb that has both affluent parts and more middle class parts. It has plenty of white students while being a diverse school. But the honors track programs are far less diverse than the general student body and that periodically causes controversy as people accuse it of being a school within a school.

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