From: blockedofcourse@foo.invalid   
      
   On 11/6/2025 7:23 AM, legg wrote:   
   > On Sun, 2 Nov 2025 12:47:59 -0700, Don Y    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>> "Pre-college preparation - most high school grads in US don't have enough   
   of   
   >>> basics to do well day 1. This is especially the case when you goto a lower   
   >>> ranked school. Engineering is hard everywhere, you can literally not read   
   your   
   >>> psychology textbook and get a B."   
   >>   
   >> 50% of "high school grads" are "below average".  So, going from that   
   >> to "most" isn't even a hop/skip/jump.   
   >>   
   >> And, if you're targeting a "lower ranked school", it's *almost*   
   >> an admission that you don't have what it takes to get into a better   
   >> school.   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   > . . . or that your parents didn't have the dough to live in   
   > the 'right' area.   
      
   In the US, that isn't (wasn't) necessarily true.   
      
   My folks didn't have squat (my first summer job I made more than   
   either of them!).  But, merit scholarships, loans and my own labor   
   made it possible for me to go to school and pay off my loans the   
   day I got my degree.   
      
   By contrast, the bank president's son (from whom I got my "spare   
   application") didn't make the cut -- despite living in the "right"   
   area, having a nice big house, fancy cars, etc.  He just didn't   
   have the smarts!   
      
   (He likely would have had better luck at a place like Harvard)   
      
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