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Yvonne.  I don't know to whom your comments were addressed and understanding that will keep me from trying to parse and parse again the comments on this board to which you were possibly responding.

Before we rush off applying fine-toothed income metrics to Kal students,  note that Harbaugh talked about much more than income.  He talked about advantages, the most important being:  parents who encouraged and nurtured and set expectations about higher education.  Secondary (in my opinion) are the  resources that were used to make sure those students developed and did well on all the gate-keeper tests.  I know lots of kids of my generation and certainly their kids who did prep (courses and tutors) to do well on the SAT and ACT.  Many of them went to UC Berkeley.  UCB is so competitive that they had to have that kind of support.  And a lot of kids took prep courses just to make sure they made it into San Diego State or Humboldt State.  And, although I know it's considered a joke,  I know kids who prepped to get into Bama.  Good on them! 

Harbaugh's dig , I think, was aimed at a certain kind of Stanford student and not just his team.  I think he observed well and saw kids who had excelled, who had been raised and supported to excel and saw their presence at Stanford as proof of that accomplishment.  But that attitude can be seen at every competitive,  high-ranking college or university.  At Princeton, at UC San Diego,  Swarthmore,  Furman, Rice, Berkeley, Claremont McKenna, even Reed College.  They ALL are the lucky ones who need to remember  who helped them build that,  if only to keep them from being too full of their sweet selves.

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Yvonne.  I don't know to whom your comments were addressed and understanding that will keep me from trying to parse and parse again the comments on this board to which you were possibly responding.

Before we rush off applying fine-toothed income metrics to Kal students,  note that Harbaugh talked about much more than income.  He talked about advantages, the most important being:  parents who encouraged and nurtured and set expectations about higher education.  Secondary (in my opinion) are the  resources that were used to make sure those students developed and did well on all the gate-keeper tests.  I know lots of kids of my generation and certainly their kids who did prep (courses and tutors) to do well on the SAT and ACT.  Many of them went to UC Berkeley.  UCB is so competitive that they had to have that kind of support.  And a lot of kids took prep courses just to make sure they made it into San Diego State or Humboldt State.  And, although I know it's considered a joke,  I know kids who prepped to get into Bama.  Good on them! 

Harbaugh's dig , I think, was aimed at a certain kind of Stanford student and not just his team.  I think he observed well and saw kids who had excelled, who had been raised and supported to excel and saw their presence at Stanford as proof of that accomplishment.  But that attitude can be seen at every competitive,  high-ranking college or university.  At Princeton, at UC San Diego,  Swarthmore,  Furman, Rice, Berkeley, Claremont McKenna, even Reed College.  They ALL are the lucky ones who need to remember  who helped them build that,  if only to keep them from being too full of their sweet selves.