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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if we lived anywhere else, say Vermont, Maine, Alaska, Kansas, would a 1490 get you in at a better school that is not attainable to the DC kids just b/c of a zip code?[/quote] I mean there’s no question that geographic diversity can be a boost, this is pretty well known. Also consider that kids coming from the states you’re thinking of may be coming from a very different culture than the NY/DC/Boston etc kids. I live in one of the states you mentioned, my kid was in the 10% of graduating class from one of the top 3 publics in the state. So I know the high achiever demographic (and their parents.) Test prep madness just doesn’t exist here at the same level it does in other places. Sure, some kids take a class. Private tutors may exist but I’ve never heard of somebody paying thousands of dollars for one. So do we have fewer kids with near-perfect SAT scores? Almost certainly.[/quote]
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