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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting story from 10:55. ^ I wonder what happened to the person who could've gone to MIT but was discouraged from doing so? It seems so wrong that the person was discouraged from attending. Hopefully he has been successful, anyway. 
(To some degree, I wonder how much the choice of college matters in many professions, anyway, but that's another discussion).

I did have a question about the Blair HS magnet example. 
[quote]Since Blair HS as a whole does not qualify for Title 1 funds, and only 121 of nearly 800 students (as of 2 years ago) qualified for free and reduced meals, it isn't going to be considered a disadvantaged school.. [/quote]

It's unclear to me from what I see online about the degree to which Blair would be considered a disadvantaged school. It looks like 36% of kids there qualify for FARMS. https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf
Many U.S. schools have much higher percentages - a quick glance just at Wheaton and Northwood shows higher FARMS rates there- but it's also true that many Montgomery County schools have FARMS rates that are less than 5%. 
That's just one factor in many - https://professionals.collegeboard.org/environmental-context-dashboard/detailed-data-description. 
I'd be curious about what the numerical criteria is for the different factors and how different schools will end up being classified. 
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Read this page to bottom for far more detail on the data going into the HS and especially the neighborhood factors. There a sample dashboard for a hypothetical high school so you can see how it would be presented

https://professionals.collegeboard.org/environmental-context-dashboard/detailed-data-description[/quote]

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