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<p>You’re assuming all students from Exeter or from comparable respectable/elite private schools are all well-prepared for respectable/elite colleges. </p>
<p>That’s not always necessarily the case depending on the individual student and given curricular track/courses he/she took. </p>
<p>One older college classmate who was admitted to at least one Ivy and attended a respectable private boarding school was allowed to get away with taking only 2 years of science courses…and non-lab “rocks for jocks” type courses at that. That and his weak math background caused him to struggle heavily in a science course for non-majors because he never performed a science lab experiment in his life till that point and to drop stats at least once because he was on track to actually failing it. </p>
<p>His knowledge gap in US history was serious enough to impede him in core courses in a related field and require a crash tutoring session with yours truly despite scoring a 5 on the APUSH exam. </p>
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<p>That data was from 4 years ago and was probably a serious undercount as that was around the same period the parent/alum associations had a “get out the word” campaign to encourage more low-income parents, especially immigrants to fill out the forms to make them eligible for free/reduced priced lunches. </p>
<p>One issue is a lot of immigrants from older generations have moved out of once/current immigrant heavy neighborhoods or out of NYC altogether and there has been many changes in navigating the DOE bureaucracy. </p>
<p>Combine that with an influx of much more recent immigrants whose backgrounds/dialects may serve as barriers to interacting with more established immigrants*, I’ve been hearing that quite a few have fallen through the cracks from alum association members who are parents of current/recently graduated students. </p>
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<li>Speaking mainly of the larger Chinese community though this does apply to varying extents to other immigrant groups as well…including gaps between second generation or later immigrants who have nearly/completely assimilated into the mainstream US culture and recent immigrants and first/second generation immigrants who have not been/choose not to to the same extent/at all.<br></li>
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