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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You live here. My public Ffx Co HS had 98% go onto a 4-year college.  And the others mostly still went to community college.

My spouse from the Midwest had only about 50% go onto a 4-year college--and it was a middle class HS.[/quote]

This!

And I've lived in many smaller towns in the midwest while growing up.  Let's see, the HS in the town of 5K (where the nearest large town was 45 mins away and that town has 40K people): there are no AP courses, the highest math is Pre-Calculus.  
Had I still lived there when I was in HS, I suspect I might not have found my path to a T10 university.  I grew up poor and still wasn't at a Top HS, but at least went to one where 65%+ went to a 4 year college and another 10% went to CC. Thankful My parents moved before I hit MS.

But that city is 5K residence, the median income in 2020 was $25,834 and less than 60% go to any form of college, the vast majority of those are at CC.

It doesn't matter how smart you are, when you spend 18 years not being exposed to antyhgin but basics and being around people that largely do not have college degrees or jobs/careers that need them, you have no role models.  And no opportunity.  I went there from 3-5th.  I recall being bored out of my mind.  I was a very smart kid, and math came easily.  I was beyond bored in regular math even at that point and usually just sat in class, read my books and let my parents deal with the teachers who got mad I was reading in class.  I saw no point in paying attention as I already knew everything they were teaching (especially in math).  And this was 35-40 years ago (no computers or google). 
The trajectory of my life was changed because I was only there for a few years and my parents valued education (despite the fact they didn't have college degrees).  But imagine a kid with 2 parents who both do manufacturing or farming or are Walmart greeters.  IOt's good enough for them, why would they even encourage anything else

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