[Spooky23]

They were right.

The 90th percentile earner from the Harvard class of 2010 didn’t come from some random high school in Missouri with an 1000 median SAT score.

Guidance counselors suck every where. Mine was a national guard major, 18% of my class joined the military.

[nitrogen]

Medians are misleading. Some random high school in Missouri probably has outliers that it just doesn't know how to deal with. Additionally, maintaining low expectations perpetuates a cycle of underachievement.