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By zip code, my kids would be thought low income living in the midst of urban blight, and that the school for that zip code must be completely noncompetitive. </p>
<p>I know what you meant, but this does come off sounding really bad.
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<p>I didn't mean to be insulting towards those who do live in bad neighborhoods, just wanted to make the point that the schools wishing to cast a wider net need to look at more than zip codes when analyzing schools they're not so familiar with. If Oberlin rejected an application out of hand because of the assumption that the applicant's high school wasn't up to their standards, they're losing out on a kid who might really serve to broaden perspectives. Or in the case of my neighborhood, on middle to upper middle class urban kids who have to overcome assumptions that their schools are less capable of college preparation that the old stand-by suburban schools and prep schools.</p>