Two Students. Same School. Same Teachers. Only One Got Into Her First-Choice College.
Ten months ago, Maya and Priya sat three seats apart in the same AP Statistics class. Same textbook. Same teacher. Same 7:45 a.m. bell. If you’d asked either of their classmates who was more likely to hit her SAT goal, most would have shrugged — they were equally sharp, equally hardworking, equally exhausted from juggling…