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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Watch our for McKinley Tech.  Simply pout, the school works off an affirmative action-based admissions model, where 3s are acceptable scores on AP exams when applying to elite colleges. This may be true for low SES minorities, but it's not the case for UMC white and Asian students and probably not the case for high SES minorities either.[/quote]

Do you mean this literally? (Crazy me, I would be thrilled if my white UMC kid got a 3 on some AP exams! It means qualified for college credit, according to the College Board.)

Or are you just using an inelegant metaphor to say that admission standards are low and suggesting that they have been set to make the school accessible to low SES children of color who have had uneven or worse educational experience prior to high school? And that therefore the curriculum won’t prepare more advantaged students for success at a competitive college?

If it’s the latter, I’m not going to argue your point, which may well be valid, I don’t know the school. But I do wonder about your communications skills. What was your AP English score? Mine was a 3 and I think I’m a pretty competent writer.  [/quote]

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