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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People at lower SES schools have a greater chance of getting into the advanced band/orchestra earlier in the high school career, and thus receive the higher GPA boost.

People at lower SES schools have a greater chance of making the varsity sports teams earlier.

People at lower SES schools have a chance at obtaining leadership positions in sports and music. They have a greater chance at starring roles in drama.

Those are all things that look great on a college application.

Competition is fierce at the higher SES schools for leadership positions, sports teams, and music programs. On top of having to juggle an advanced academics course. Some kids thrive in that kind of cut-throat environment. Some kids don't.[/quote]

It all evens out. My kid is at a high SES school and a friend is at a low SES school.  They know each other from club sports.  It’s true, it is much easier to make the sports team at the low SES school.  At her friend’s school, club players easily made JV or varsity in 9th grade while at our school club players were competing for spots on the freshman team.

But there are other opportunities besides sports at our school and even more opportunities at our school that they don’t even have that their school.   We have so many ECs.  [/quote]

Quoting my own post because I just thought of something.  None of this matters for sports anyway.  Any serious athletes of any sport is playing club, which is how our kids know each other. HS is not their main season and not the important thing for college.

I don’t know how it works for advanced band and orchestra or theater, but I imagine you’d want your child at the best program available with the best training and resources if that’s their passion.  I don’t know if that’s a school program or outside of school privately, depending on where you live.  [/quote]

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