alumni Digest, Vol 39, Issue 4

[Joseph N. Hall]

(Needed to resend this from the right address.)

Actually, NCSSM has, as far as I know, always gone to considerable
lengths to ensure that its students are representative of the state
demographics. The school doesn't simply collect the SAT scores of
applicants and pick the students with the highest totals. The first
among many problems with that approach is that it's illegal.

  -j

On 4/10/07, Nick Gorton <nickgorton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Douglass
>
> As I recall when I was at NCSSM.... most of the kids who went there
> would be able to afford in state tuition in the UNC system. It may be
> different today (I graduated in 88.) But I suspect that it is still
> the case that despite being a merit based school, there is
> disproportionate representation of students from affluent families –
> since those are the ones who will more often succeed in a
> 'meritocracy' after a decade and a half of educational advantage.