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Re: Public Schools/Grammar-Spelling (was: Reputations)

The kids I mentor from Boston are simply out of this world bright. During the year, while designing, brainstorming, and working in the lab you can tell they are smart kids.
I was having a conversation with a student from the Boston Latin School, where I was flabbergasted to find that about 25% of their students go on to ivey league colleges and universities. I believe about 25 kids applied to Harvard, 15 were accepted.
Our team mostly consists of students from Boston Latin, Brookline High School, One students father is a candidate for the Nobel Prize.
There doesn't seem to be too much of a difference between either high schools. In fact Brookline, although a public school has an average SAT of 1167.

So to sum things up, we currently do not work with "inner city schools." I think we see students from parents who live and work inside of Boston, who are very high caliber individuals. I think their parents are the ones who shaped the mold for how great they are today.
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