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I doubt that this phenomenon has anything to do with a child blending in. It might have more to do with how much energy the school has to spend defending itself from demanding parents, or how invested the school is in it's own reputation. A little humility goes a long way when trying to met the needs of a kid with unusual needs.
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Grinity

Yeah, there are really no demanding parents in our school. I'm totally serious. Many parents have not even finished HS themselves.

I think many colleges will be very receptive to kids who appear to have a lot of potential but come from poorer performing schools. If two kids have the same test scores and one came from a high performing school and the other came from a low performing school. They will assume that the one from teh low performing school has MORE potential; it just hasn't been tapped yet. Schools like to have a well rounded demographic and don't want to just be filled with kids from prep-schools etc.

acs - you are so absolutely right! Our school does amazing on the tests. GreatSchools.net ranks our school 9 out of 10. It does a fairly good job with MG children. It does not recognize LOG at all and doesn't try to tailor for these kids one iota.

If I could go back 2 years, I would have looked at a totally different set of schools than what we looked at. When I was looking, I really thought we "maybe" had a MG kid.

I also wonder if the average teacher at schools with a wider demographic might tend to be a little more passionate about their jobs?