Quote 1.

” If you only took the kids who need this most, the ones who somehow excel at terrible schools, who swim upstream but are still far behind academically, you wouldn’t get enough eventually accepted to M.I.T. to justify the program.”

Quote 2.

” But where I start from is so far behind where some other kids are, I have to run twice the distance to catch up.”

Quote 3.

” Being a minority and a high achiever means you have to carry extra baggage about who you are, and where you belong. That puts them at risk.”

Quote 4.

” He is overwhelmed by the blistering workload: six-hours each day of intensive classes, study sessions with tutors each night, endless hours more of homework.”