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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's interesting to me is how hard certain people come down on lower SES schools.

You want your kid to go to a higher SES school? That's great! Good for you! You do you.

But those same folks continually disparage those who attend lower SES schools and are happy and successful there. I wonder why. Is it an insecurity thing? You want to believe that you made the right decision? You feel the best way you can do it is to put down anyone who takes a different track in life? You continue to play the same recording of negativity, over and over, and you don't want to listen to anyone who says it's not like that.

I went to a lower SES school, got scholarship that paid for most of my undergrad, then a full-ride scholarship for my master's degree. My family is definitely UMC, and I mean upper. My kids are at a school with low SES kids, and they're doing great. To be honest, I'm more comfortable with the lower SES community.

So let me encourage you to continue to do you. Live where you want. And I don't know your kid, but I hope they turn out just fine.[/quote]

By all means make the best of your personal situation.  Just stop the BS that attending a lower SES school is a big advantage when it comes to college preparation and admissions.  Those of us with direct personal experience with different pyramids in FCPS know that's the exception, not the rule.

And, of course, there's an irony is touting the "school within the school" at the lower SES schools and then claiming you've immersed yourself in a "lower SES community."

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Of course students who have the qualifications/aptitude at the “lower performing” schools have an advantage in college admissions, simply because there is a higher concentration of applicants from the schools you see as “superior”. [/quote]

The students at the lower ranked schools are less likely to end up with similar qualifications as the students at higher ranked schools with similar raw ability, and most top schools would prefer to take multiple kids with superior qualifications coming from a top HS over a kid with inferior qualifications coming from a low performing HS.  They are looking at their larger applicant pool and don’t have quotas to admit kids from low performing public high schools.

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