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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally FWIW: My child attends a no-kidding low-income, small rural high school. Sure, it's a huge advantage to have educated, employed parents (or just two parents at home, full stop). But it's no freebie for college admissions for the small number of better-off kids. The education is, in fact, much worse than what you'd get in a suburban school. Not just far fewer APs, etc, although that's true. But the plain education is worse. Even the honors student don't read many books, don't write many papers, don't learn much math. I'm sure my child will get *some* preference for college admission. But it really is a greater challenge, even with educated parents. Don't do this as a strategic choice is all I can say![/quote]

Yep. My friend who grew up in the rural Midwest says the same thing. A tiny k-12 school that just did not support any sort of higher level academics. She ended up going to boarding school.

A really bright kid arguably could end up in the same place with college admissions, but would enter college much less prepared.[/quote]

Yes,  this is what I was thinking. Not as prepared.  Classes aren’t offered and th competition isn’t as hard.  Annandale v. Langley student with same stats - Langley is still more prepared and it will be harder for Annandale to keep up.[/quote]

Sometimes but not always.

Top students from my kid’s title I school regularly win state and national competitions in multiple ECs and go on to thrive at top colleges.
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A bunch of my kids' friends from their Title I high school are graduating from college this year. One is heading to grad school and got into several programs, including at a top R1 university. Another had an internship last summer out west at a company everyone would recognize. One is part of a very selective scholars program and is a senior writer for a publication at a flagship university. One is involved in student government and had a selective internship overseas this past summer. And another received a substantial, prestigious grant from their Ivy to do summer research.

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