<p>It’s like comparing someone who goes to school from grades K-12 in a poor area, like downtown LA, to someone who goes to school from grades K-12 in a better-off area, like Palo Alto. Who will be more prepared for college? </p>
<p>Likewise, if two people are studying neurobiology and are planning to be surgeons, one having attended Harvard, which ranks number 1 in that field of study as well as many other studies including but not limited to law, psychology, economics, biology, etc.; and the other having attended UC Merced, who do you think will be better off in their profession?</p>
<p>Why is this so? Because the education at the Palo Alto schools and the Ivy League schools are much more rigorous and thus prepares their students much more adequately. The students themselves are also of the same caliber - as evident by their stats - as the curriculum. If they can’t even handle a simple test well, how can you expect them to succeed in a real world setting?</p>