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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well I am a black woman who scored extremely high on the SAT and LSAT -- high enough to get me an Ivy education and law degree.  My siblings also scored very high on every standardized test they took.  Are we freaks?  No.  We just have parents who are SERIOUS about education.  Banneker's scores are very disappointing for DC's only test-in school.  One explanation is that the privates skim the best students off the top.[/quote]

+100.  Good for you.  I, too, scored high on the SAT and GRE although I was to become the sole Ivy Leaguer of my public high school class.  My siblings, who attended the same school, went to Harvard.  We had some fine teachers, particularly math teachers, and parents who restricted our TV viewing.  We read a lot, making lists of vocabulary words we didn't know as we went for years before we hit the SAT.  We looked up the words, and studied definitions, as our test prep.

Utter nonsense that an "elite" test-in school where SAT scores hover around the national average is serving its students well.  I've interviewed Banneker valedictorians applying to my Ivy who were so far out of their league that they needn't have bothered.  Disaster, source of shame.  [/quote]

How in the hell do you know that when we know that SAT scores and income are directly related?  The SATs don't judge intelligence.  It's a test. That's why some really good liberal arts colleges no longer take them.  Sure, you meet Banneker kids who are really smart, but are not culturally sophisticated.  They are products of their environment. They also have homeless students.  I am sure those students will not impress you when you interview them.  They may not have the social skills that you are accustomed to experiencing.  Do you write them off because they are not polished?  I am a lawyer and my husband is an executive.  My kids are going to present differently than a kid who is a first generation college graduate and who's father works at WASA.

I'm sorry that I don't have a stick up my ass so far it's coming out of my ears and that I am able to pass judgement on others who don't live in the gold coast and have college degrees.  This is DC.  I've seen many people climb and get there heads in the clouds and then watch them fall.[/quote]

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