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None of my friends scored below 1400 and none had tutors. All public school.
by geraldwhen 4y ago
None of my friends scored below 1400 and none had tutors. All public school.
- mberning 4y agoThe data in OP shows that your personal experience is quite different than the public school students of Michigan. That's great for you, but not the normal experience of most students.
- skavi 4y agoThis seems to say more about your friends than anything else.
- googlryas 4y ago1400 is 93rd percentile. The odds of, say, 7 random kids scoring above the 93rd percentile is pretty small. I bet you drew your friends from AP/honors classes, or from some nerdy/academic pursuit.
- sokoloff 4y agoI don't know that my situation was exactly at that 1400 threshold, but I was all public schooled, basically all of my friends were from AP/honors classes, none of took SAT tutoring (that I ever heard about) and most of us scored in that range. It seems (overwhelmingly?) common for ones high-school friends to be your classmates.
- geraldwhen 4y agoThe data is stratified heavily by race and school district. Limit to <white and Indian within a zip code> and the odds are probably much, much higher. Highschool students are not randomly distributed to schools across America. There are schools that look like war zones, and places where kids actually learn. Moving the kids to different schools isn’t a solution because it’s the kids that are the problem.