<p>THREE to MIT? Now that sounds really odd…not to mention three off to Harvard. Something just doesn’t sound right about this. Anyone else"</p>
<p>Doesn’t sound odd. There are public schools like that – particularly in the Boston area, where there are schools filled with kids from highly educated backgrounds where parents also are local college professors, including at Harvard and MIT, which also gives the kids a boost intellectually and with admissions.</p>
<p>There are public schools in the Boston area that send 20 kids to Harvard. One of the Newton highs is like that.</p>
<p>3 students from my own public school class – that wasn’t in the Boston area – went to Harvard.</p>