Here's how it works: Every year for the past thirty years, approximately 150 low-income New York fifth- and seventh-grade superstars are plucked from their presumably limited public school environments and placed, after an extremely intensive 14-month preparation and on full scholarship, into the top independent schools in New York (Trinity, Collegiate, Brearley...) and the top boarding schools (Exeter, Choate, Phillips Academy...) around the country. All of the students...