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Vista students who took the SAT in
2009 was 1916 out of 2400, 27 percent
higher than the nationwide average.
Respected kids at Monta Vista High
School are not necessarily athletic or
vivacious, according to the students I
meet here. Rather, they’re studious and
sometimes quiet. “Being smart is actually
admired, even if you’re weird,” a
Korean-American high school sophomore
named Chris tells me. Chris describes
the experience of his friend,
whose family left to spend two years in
a Tennessee town where few Asian-
Americans lived. The friend enjoyed it,
but suffered culture shock. In Tennessee
“there were insanely smart people, but
they were always by themselves. Here,
the really smart people usually have a
lot of friends, because they can help
people out with their work.”
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