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Yeah, 'cuz eventually everyone else just catches up anyway! Reading at a college level in college isn't that impressive.
Interestingly enough, no, not really. If you want to look it up, they call it the 'Matthew Effect' (from the biblical parable in matthew about the servants being given tithes by the master and using them).
Kids who read more get more from what they read later. If you've read ten books and your neighbor only one, you retain more and understand more from the next book you've read. Unless you completely stop reading, or they suddenly start reading way more, the earlier start with your reading will give you far greater benefits. A humorous little fact is that you can predict college gpa better with the amount of books read by age five (I think, it might be by grade five, it's been a while since I read the study) than by the SAT/ACT tests.
I don't really find that all that impressive because schooling success is so strongly correlated with socioeconomic status
No they don't. Not in my experience.
Remember, half of people are below average and average isn't that impressive.
I did go to college with some dummies myself, but most of them could read the material they were required to
The majority did not go to college.
I see what you're saying. I was only thinking in terms of school, since no one really tracks your reading abilities in the "real world" anyway.