alt Hacker NewsOne of the charts in TFA shows a discontinuity in admissions rate around 75% UPP. This means that if you send your kid to a HS that is underserved when you enroll, but drops below the critical 75% threshold because too many other families are doing the same, then the school could fall out of the strong-benefit category.
The kid would still have a better chance than if he applied from a high-performing school, but it wouldn't be as much of an advantage.
Socially, I'm guessing the kid could face some challenges because (1) other high performing students might not like him because he's a curve-breaker, (2) teachers would know what the family was up to and could view it as distasteful, and (3) if the student went to UCSD or another school where this is a well-known hack, there could be stigma for having gamed the system/being less-smart.
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> other high performing students might not like him because he's a curve-breaker
Not that common in high school to have classes and exams curved. Also kids don't care.
> teachers would know what the family was up to and could view it as distasteful
They also don't care
> if the student went to UCSD or another school where this is a well-known hack, there could be stigma for having gamed the system/being less-smart.
College kids also don't care and there are lots of other ways to game the system. Ocne you're at school, no one cares who gamed the system to get there and how they did it
No one cares what high school you went to in college, unless maybe you went to the same high school yourself.