<p>Well here is my view on it.</p>
<p>Academic excellence in high school gives you a leg up on the competition because obviously someone who gets high grades and high SAT scores would end up at a good college like MIT or Harvard. It also gives you more opportunities but the problem is, our high schools are so different. I attended a difficult magnet school where A’s were tough to come by and I lived a rough life. </p>
<p>A lot of the C students at the magnet school I attended could have easily been A students at a lot of the regular public schools (one of them flunked out first semester and had to attend their zoned school, now they are an honor graduate at their zoned school). </p>
<p>Doing good in high school gets you into the good colleges but from there on it gets tougher and there are people who burn out when they get to college. </p>
<p>There is too much of a disparity when it comes to high school and not to mention the tough upbringing kids have.</p>