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1. When you can select your students, it makes all the difference.

Thu Sep 12, 2013, 12:30 PM

Sep 2013

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College Acceptance for this school is 100% [View all] SoCalDem Sep 2013 OP

When you can select your students, it makes all the difference. Brickbat Sep 2013 #1

They chose poor kids in gang-infested communities SoCalDem Sep 2013 #2

Yup I agree gopiscrap Sep 2013 #9

They cherry pick. That is what makes them private schools. duffyduff Sep 2013 #20

And they can choose who they want from that community gollygee Sep 2013 #5

Yep. kcr Sep 2013 #22

OMG I so fully agree gopiscrap Sep 2013 #27

Yeah, right. I have a bridge to sell you. n/t duffyduff Sep 2013 #19

Don't community colleges in CA have open enrollment? KamaAina Sep 2013 #4

UCR is not a community college SoCalDem Sep 2013 #7

Two students went to UCR that we know of KamaAina Sep 2013 #10

The Jesuits have very quietly set up a group of these high schools hedgehog Sep 2013 #6

Unless you are poor & in Watts, it's unlikely to be a choice SoCalDem Sep 2013 #11

$15,000 tuition Nine Sep 2013 #12

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!!!! gopiscrap Sep 2013 #28

So... what happens to the C students at the local high school? bobclark86 Sep 2013 #14

Should those C students drag Ricardo and Roberto down with them? Recursion Sep 2013 #15

Good for them. kcr Sep 2013 #17

A dear friend once loved this phrase SoCalDem Sep 2013 #23

LIke I said kcr Sep 2013 #24

Copied the headline of an article.. did not write the headline SoCalDem Sep 2013 #25

Oh, I see. kcr Sep 2013 #26

Yup I agree with you!!! gopiscrap Sep 2013 #29

Big deal. It's a private school. They cherry pick who attends it. duffyduff Sep 2013 #18