People aren’t worried about schools in culturally conservative areas because they think it’ll make it hard for kids to get into selective private colleges; they

People aren’t worried about schools in culturally conservative areas because they think it’ll make it hard for kids to get into selective private colleges; they’re worried about raising their children in areas with a high density of bigots, lest the bigotry rub off on their children. The paradox of tolerance partially explains this (frequently invalid) bit of discrimination. But if getting a leg up on selective admissions IS one of your goals, taking your bright teenager to live in a conservative rural or semi-rural area is actually a great way to avail yourself of the many regional quotas these colleges use. But it’s also frequently a way to make your teenagers really hate you for moving them to such a place...