{"id":1366,"date":"2005-05-10T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My high school Acalanes of Lafayette, CA is ranked 382nd of the <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7723397\/site\/newsweek\/?page=4\\\">top high schools<\/a> in America according to Newsweek.  They devised the score from a combination of AP tests and the percentage of graduating seniors.  So is this the reason that my parents moved my sister and me out of a predominantly asian working class community when I was 7 to this more affluent, more snotty predominantly Caucasian city?<\/p>\n<p>Although I must admit, I have to attribute a lot of my skills to the educational system there.  Despite the fact that I felt like an outsider (probably not only due to my ethnicity but also just my natural social awkwardness), I did develop analytical skills&#8230;and easily got 4s or 5s in the APs.  I am biased of course.  I only conclude this because at Berkeley, I noticed that people who came from some urban high schools&#8230;struggled with some courses whereas I (and people from other affluent areas) just breezed through them.  What does this mean though?  This surely provides evidence that high school is important for one\\&#8217;s education.  Even if it\\&#8217;s a place that we all want to forget, the structure, the groundwork is built there for the future.  And obviously, money always plays a major role in getting that great education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My high school Acalanes of Lafayette, CA is ranked 382nd of the top high schools in America according to Newsweek. They devised the score from a combination of AP tests and the percentage of graduating seniors. So is this the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}