Intel on Latin in HS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reality is that many of the highest-performing Latin HS students still leave for Walls. You get roughly 20 students capable of making it to the most highly competitive colleges in any given class of Latin students, and more than 100 from a Walls class. Unless a high performer is very happy at Latin socially, it's not necessarily worth staying if Walls is an option.

Does Walls accept students with IEPs these days? If not, that’s a reason for staying at Latin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Latin is catering to white UMC PARENTS WHO DON’t want to pay for private school. We all know that. And they will use the new $ they get for having some seats set aside for disadvantaged kids to continue to funnel support and money into those things that that allow the white UMC crowd to believe they are at a private school. It is disgusting, actually. And immoral of Latin.

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[Anonymous]

A school that students, families and teachers feel proud to be a part of - as proud as if they had gotten into a top private...OH THE HUMANITY!!!

Funneling money and support into worse schools has gotten this city nowhere, btw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many rising 9th graders are leaving Latin for Walls this coming school year?

Any how many are leaving for private?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reality is that many of the highest-performing Latin HS students still leave for Walls. You get roughly 20 students capable of making it to the most highly competitive colleges in any given class of Latin students, and more than 100 from a Walls class. Unless a high performer is very happy at Latin socially, it's not necessarily worth staying if Walls is an option.

Long time Latin parent here. Your post is 1) untrue—it isn’t the highest academic performers who leave for Walls, it is those who want more sports or a bigger/different social scene and 2) not sure if your numbers are right on admissions to highly competitive colleges but….duh. Latin is an open enrollment school. Takes anyone. No test. No minimum requirements. Walls is a selective academic magnet school. Of course more of their students gain admission to the most highly competitive colleges—that is where those students are applying and they have been pre selected for academic performance. If your number of ~20 students from Latin gain admission to highly competitive colleges each year, that is damn impressive! That’s roughly 25% of the entire school achieving that each and every year. And you should check out the astronomical scholarship totals they earn. At an open enrollment DC Public School. Super impressive. That’s where I want my students.

[Anonymous]

Of course you were going to provide this particular rebuttal. Something made it inevitable. Yet PP's assertion holds up. Every prospective Ivy Leaguer doesn't leave Latin for Walls, or a private, post 8th grade, but most do. Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course you were going to provide this particular rebuttal. Something made it inevitable. Yet PP's assertion holds up. Every prospective Ivy Leaguer doesn't leave Latin for Walls, or a private, post 8th grade, but most do. Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

Says who? Based on what? I identified myself as a long time parent at Latin who has observed from the inside for over a decade. You are? And you brought private into the discussion, the pp was limiting the comparison to Walls.

[Anonymous]

Also—Ivy League vs. highly competitive colleges. I think it is thou who protests too much😘

[Anonymous]

Well I just looked at the Latin 2023 instagram and saw Princeton, Penn,
Cornell and Duke so that seems pretty good to me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well I just looked at the Latin 2023 instagram and saw Princeton, Penn,
Cornell and Duke so that seems pretty good to me

Not to mention Georgetown, UVA, W&M, UMD, Vanderbilt, USC, Middlebury, and BC, among many other great schools where students are getting lots of scholarships.

[Anonymous]

This year Walls has kids going to Yale (2), Stanford, Princeton, Penn (2), and Cornell (4).

The senior class at Walls is more than twice the size of Latin, so--even if you just look at Ivies or near Ivies (and, sure, there are lots of other good schools)--Latin did fine this year.

More interesting is to see the kids at Latin who aren't going to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This year Walls has kids going to Yale (2), Stanford, Princeton, Penn (2), and Cornell (4).

The senior class at Walls is more than twice the size of Latin, so--even if you just look at Ivies or near Ivies (and, sure, there are lots of other good schools)--Latin did fine this year.

More interesting is to see the kids at Latin who aren't going to college.

And I love that they post those on Instragramt too! Considering Latin has such a broad range of students, they are doing very well in college admissions imho.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This year Walls has kids going to Yale (2), Stanford, Princeton, Penn (2), and Cornell (4).

The senior class at Walls is more than twice the size of Latin, so--even if you just look at Ivies or near Ivies (and, sure, there are lots of other good schools)--Latin did fine this year.

More interesting is to see the kids at Latin who aren't going to college.

OK, so why do some of the strongest Latin 8th graders leave for Walls year after year? Got it, no point. Myopic fools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This year Walls has kids going to Yale (2), Stanford, Princeton, Penn (2), and Cornell (4).

The senior class at Walls is more than twice the size of Latin, so--even if you just look at Ivies or near Ivies (and, sure, there are lots of other good schools)--Latin did fine this year.

More interesting is to see the kids at Latin who aren't going to college.

OK, so why do some of the strongest Latin 8th graders leave for Walls year after year? Got it, no point. Myopic fools.

Do they? I’m another long time Latin parent of multiple children. This isn’t what I’ve observed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This year Walls has kids going to Yale (2), Stanford, Princeton, Penn (2), and Cornell (4).

The senior class at Walls is more than twice the size of Latin, so--even if you just look at Ivies or near Ivies (and, sure, there are lots of other good schools)--Latin did fine this year.

More interesting is to see the kids at Latin who aren't going to college.

OK, so why do some of the strongest Latin 8th graders leave for Walls year after year? Got it, no point. Myopic fools.

Do they? I’m another long time Latin parent of multiple children. This isn’t what I’ve observed.

Some do leave, for sure. But not that many. It depends on the year and the social scene and what kind of high school experience (ie bigger than Latin) kids want. But it’s not as many as these PPs are making it out to seem.