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billnech@aol.com (BillNech) wrote:
>My own high school back in the 70's was a well reputed college prep 
>school and we only got one or maybe two students into MIT every year.

What was your class size?  What's the SHS class size?

>I'm only posting this to note that some "city" schools aren't as bad as
>their reputations, and that some excellent students come out of these
>schools.

But from my observation and experience, the best public-school students
had a lot more catching up to do than the mediocre prep-school students.
If you want to compare student to student, fine, but I seriously doubt
that the  quality of SHS education generally comes near to the quality
of the education from the better prep schools, by a long shot.

A more likely interpretation of your statistic is that properly
supported, motivated and talented students from SHS can still make the
ivy-league "A" list.  But what about the kids who don't have that
extreme degree of support or motivation (presumably from home)?

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Daniel
danorton@chsw.com