[quote=esmith][quote=pepsi]
I don’t really think that means the kids in MM are “generically” stupider.
The purpose of my question is for parents with good job/stable marriage to justify the purchase of home in CV vs MM.
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You’ll have a hard time finding a school with demographics of TPHS that has average SAT below 1700.
There’s no doubt that an average kid in TPHS is considerably more intelligent than an average kid in MMHS. The question that remains is whether a smart kid from MMHS would be pulled ahead by a combination of peer pressure and good tutoring to increase his SAT by 70 points if he went to TPHS instead.[/quote]
Does it really matter to get that extra 70 points ? If you put in an application that say you are top 5% from the school v.s. just being average (from TPHS), and SAT 1680 vs 1750, do you have better chance to get into an elite university ?
If the chace is about the same, then maybe my kid will have a better childhood living in MM.
