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A good friend of mine grew up (as far as I know) in a loving and stable household, though her parents eventually divorced. She had rotten SATs, probably because she attended a terrible high school. There should have been three high schools, but that would have impaired recruiting for the football team, and this was Texas in the 1970s. Oh, and the football coach was also the physics teacher. If he wanted to get an early start on practice prep, there was no physics class that day, and in those days there was not likely to be an appeal beyond the football coach.