according to the people who told me about moving to a worse school, transcripts coming from "urban underserved schools" (there was an actual technical term they used but i forgot it) are more appealing to ivy league schools. They had about five tricks to make their kids more appealing to ivy's that included moving houses, changing schools, specific sports, certain extra curricular, etc. -- to clarify we were chatting at a 4 y/o's birthday party.

See this thread for young marriage to hide parental income as another tactic.

You probably went to a crappy school because your parents were poor and they wouldn't know any tricks to give you advantages.

You (having poor parents) wouldn't need an entire class of these scams designed to hide your wealthy upbringing.

Alternatively watch king of the hill episode "The Redneck on Rainey Street" :)