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MaryMagdaline

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3. This is why considering someone's zip code is essential to evaluating future success

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Wed Oct 9, 2019, 12:42 PM

Oct 2019

If you live in Manhattan and your parents have all kinds of money to buy SAT prep courses and tutors, your 1300/1400 on the SAT only looks so good. If you're from frigging MISSISSIPPI and get a 1300, you're probably at the very, very top of the intelligence scale and WAY at the top of the character and work ethic scale.

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Mississippi student scores 27 on ACT in sixth-grade [View all] mfcorey1 Oct 2019 OP

Smart, indeed but wise too.... FM123 Oct 2019 #1

Pic of her at link: tblue37 Oct 2019 #2

This is why considering someone's zip code is essential to evaluating future success MaryMagdaline Oct 2019 #3

Nice stereotyping. NT mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2019 #4

I'm not supposed to consider that Mississippi is 50th in education? Those are statistics MaryMagdaline Oct 2019 #5