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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fine for UMC white families perhaps, but ambitious black families can’t risk it. [/quote]

if a white UMC kid graduates eastern, they will likely get into the college of their choice[/quote]

False. I wish people would stop saying this. [/quote]

Why is that false?[/quote]

Because there is no magic loophole whereby your (likely average) white kid suddenly gets into Yale because they deigned to go to a poor, predominantly black school. Relatedly, sending your white kid to Eastern doesn’t actually turn them into an academic superstar just because they are white. [b]And the affluent schools in fact have resources that in some respects makes the education better (better teachers, more focused on college prep, better labs, etc)[/b]. people who believe this have some strange belief in the power of whiteness - “my kid’s whiteness will excel anywhere without any effort!”[/quote]

I think many people genuinely underestimate the resources that E-H and Eastern have, because they’re not something that you would see in CAPE scores. [/quote]

Does Eastern offer calculus? I don't see it listed in the courses on the Eastern website. It's debatable that affluent schools have better teachers. In fact, I think that teaching in a non-affluent school is harder. What's less debatable is that affluent schools generally offer much more rigorous courses and class sequences, including a math sequence that includes calculus.

It's a real risk IMO to send a kid to a predominantly poor school that doesn't offer a rigorous pathway of classes in the hopes of gaming the system.[/quote]

Wow, it has got to offer Calculus, no?  I mean this is a standard track in most schools. It is not even anywhere remotely advance. [/quote]

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