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by hammock 831 days ago
These data are often so unrelatable. Would love to see it filtered for top 50 schools and kids with 3.0+ GPA (or some other reasonable measure of aptitude + ambition)
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Sure, but if we are going to go there, lets also compare it filtered for bottom 50 schools and kids who barely graduated. And then let us look at those differences from the lens of what success was driven by the person's background, what came from their own self, and what was actually change invoked upon those lives by the school and the education it provided.
These are probably just percentiles to compare. But that’s more data than cnbc is likely to publish.
Sure. Or just let me look at the data for everyone that grew up in the same neighborhood as me
GPA likely tracks to aptitude + ambition, but attending a "top 50 school" is mostly a function of who their parents were.
Ambition tracks to who your parents are