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Dream. Many first- and second-generation
Asian immigrants live here and
work at the local high-tech office parks.
Apple Computer’s headquarters at 1 Infinite
Loop is in town. Google’s Mountain
View headquarters is just down the
road. Meticulously maintained cars
glide along the boulevards; the few
pedestrians are crisply dressed in bright
colors and cheerful whites. Unprepossessing
ranch houses are pricey, but
buyers think the cost is worth it to get
their kids into the town’s famed public
school system, with its ranks of Ivybound
kids. Of the 615 students in the
graduating class of 2010 at Cupertino’s
Monta Vista High School (77 percent of
whom are Asian-American, according
to the school’s website, some of which
is accessible in Chinese), 53 were National
Merit Scholarship semifinalists.
The average combined score of Monta
519/929