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[quote=Anonymous]I went to a catholic high school in a midwestern town similar to Des Moines, Iowa.

It was mostly working class or poor.  A third of the class went to college, a third went to work, a third went into the military.

Zero - ever - went to an Ivy League school. It was not on the radar. Too far, too much money (FA was not the same back then), too little awareness these were even options. If you were going to college at all it was in Iowa. Once every few years someone would go to ND.

Still, friends from those days got rich at Microsoft, one is head of surgery at Cleveland Clinic, some doctors, some lawyers, more roofers and SAHMs.

What makes college competition different now is every year, that same high school sends kids to Wisconsin and Illinois and a few every year to a T25 school. Fewer going straight to work, even fewer go to the military.

There are tens of thousands of high schools like mine around the world who went from sending none to sending 1 to "top" school. That changes the competition. [/quote]

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