Cardozo: not the greatest education, but might help my kid get into an Ivy?

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I would seriously look into Banneker and McKinley.

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Anonymous wrote:"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study"

Except for your child.

Poor Ezra. I'm sure he'd be quite disappointed to learn his school is not "decent".

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't send a kid to a lower-performing school just to gain an edge in college admissions. The risk of a kid going off his current path is too high, and the chance of getting into an Ivy is too low. I'd just do it because it's what I could afford, and because the kid would get some experiences not possible in schools where everyone is rich.

Yes. Looking at the DCPS profile, Cardozo had 2% advanced in math and 5% advanced in reading. If you really think he is capable of getting 5s across the board on AP tests, how much benefit do you think he'd get from the classes? I think he'd be far better off at a selective DCPS high school, such as Banneker or SWW.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't send a kid to a lower-performing school just to gain an edge in college admissions. The risk of a kid going off his current path is too high, and the chance of getting into an Ivy is too low. I'd just do it because it's what I could afford, and because the kid would get some experiences not possible in schools where everyone is rich.

Yes. Looking at the DCPS profile, Cardozo had 2% advanced in math and 5% advanced in reading. If you really think he is capable of getting 5s across the board on AP tests, how much benefit do you think he'd get from the classes? I think he'd be far better off at a selective DCPS high school, such as Banneker or SWW.

Not only that, but what about your child. Think about your child and what environment they would enjoy, rather than treat his educational high school life as some bizarre educational experiment to get a leg up into the ivies. Weird!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't send a kid to a lower-performing school just to gain an edge in college admissions. The risk of a kid going off his current path is too high, and the chance of getting into an Ivy is too low. I'd just do it because it's what I could afford, and because the kid would get some experiences not possible in schools where everyone is rich.

Yes. Looking at the DCPS profile, Cardozo had 2% advanced in math and 5% advanced in reading. If you really think he is capable of getting 5s across the board on AP tests, how much benefit do you think he'd get from the classes? I think he'd be far better off at a selective DCPS high school, such as Banneker or SWW.

Yeah, and even if you didn't want/couldn't do Banneker or SWW, or wanted the experience of a non-Wilson HS...it can't be that hard to OOB into Eastern which, at least, has an IB program. I think it's still small and new enough that a kid as driven as this could be a big fish in a small pond but at least he'd have teachers with a bit more experience teaching advanced classes and more students able to fill seats in those classes.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't send a kid to a lower-performing school just to gain an edge in college admissions. The risk of a kid going off his current path is too high, and the chance of getting into an Ivy is too low. I'd just do it because it's what I could afford, and because the kid would get some experiences not possible in schools where everyone is rich.

Yes. Looking at the DCPS profile, Cardozo had 2% advanced in math and 5% advanced in reading. If you really think he is capable of getting 5s across the board on AP tests, how much benefit do you think he'd get from the classes? I think he'd be far better off at a selective DCPS high school, such as Banneker or SWW.

Yeah, and even if you didn't want/couldn't do Banneker or SWW, or wanted the experience of a non-Wilson HS...it can't be that hard to OOB into Eastern which, at least, has an IB program. I think it's still small and new enough that a kid as driven as this could be a big fish in a small pond but at least he'd have teachers with a bit more experience teaching advanced classes and more students able to fill seats in those classes.

Eastern is an IB school?

[Anonymous]

We're at Eastern regularly for DCYO and they have a wal up where they post pennants for colleges that students are going to. I don't recall any ivies, but there were a couple top 25 type schools which are just as competitive as any Ivy school. IF you think there is any differentiation between the Ivies, or any of the top 25 schools in selectivity, you are gravely mistaken and will hurt your child's chances of getting into college if you go with that mentality.

Unfortunately, I am an alum of one of the lesser Ivies, but would have been just as happy at any of the other 24 top schools. Also did my grad work a a major public university and found many people much smarter than myself, or many of my classmates from undergrad, but of course had I gone to Harvard, that wouldn't be the case, right?

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't send a kid to a lower-performing school just to gain an edge in college admissions. The risk of a kid going off his current path is too high, and the chance of getting into an Ivy is too low. I'd just do it because it's what I could afford, and because the kid would get some experiences not possible in schools where everyone is rich.

Yes. Looking at the DCPS profile, Cardozo had 2% advanced in math and 5% advanced in reading. If you really think he is capable of getting 5s across the board on AP tests, how much benefit do you think he'd get from the classes? I think he'd be far better off at a selective DCPS high school, such as Banneker or SWW.

Yeah, and even if you didn't want/couldn't do Banneker or SWW, or wanted the experience of a non-Wilson HS...it can't be that hard to OOB into Eastern which, at least, has an IB program. I think it's still small and new enough that a kid as driven as this could be a big fish in a small pond but at least he'd have teachers with a bit more experience teaching advanced classes and more students able to fill seats in those classes.

Eastern is an IB school?

Yes. http://easternhighschooldc.org/intro/academic-offerings/ib-international-baccalaureate/

They also offer AP classes and some cohorts and programs that seem sort of similar to Wilson's academies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study"

Except for your child.

+1!!!

[Anonymous]

Yeah, and even if you didn't want/couldn't do Banneker or SWW, or wanted the experience of a non-Wilson HS...it can't be that hard to OOB into Eastern which, at least, has an IB program. I think it's still small and new enough that a kid as driven as this could be a big fish in a small pond but at least he'd have teachers with a bit more experience teaching advanced classes and more students able to fill seats in those classes.

Great things are definitely happening at Eastern. However, getting in OOB is actually much harder than you've implied. Lottery results are out and they only offered 10 9th grade spots (7 are siblings), with 85 on the wait list. DCPS results are here: http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Learn+About+Schools/Lottery+and+Admissions:+Apply+to+Our+Schools

I got into an Ivy from a poor public high school, but my parents certainly didn't have a master plan. A selective high school seems like a good option in this case.

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Anonymous wrote:My nephew attended a DC public school was ranked 5th in his class, recieved the Gates Millenium Scholarship and was accepted into Harvard. But Howard and Georgetown turned him down. My niece, his younger sister is poised to be validictorian for her senior class in 2016 and she is ready for Yale. Attended elementary schools in southeast dc...homeschool during middle-school years and both attended comprehensive high-schools...and not WILSON for God's sake.

Not to be rude but how poor was he? My cousin applied but was turned down her mom (a single parent) made too much money, even though she had two other mouths to feed as well. My cousin eventually went to Morgan State, than U of MD medical school, did her residency at Duke and now is a certified millionaire physician

[Anonymous]

Have you considered beating your child and spouse, divorcing, abusing alcohol and sending your child to Child and Family Services? If your kid wins the Intel Science Talent Search with that background, Ivy entrance is assured. Oh, also, you could send the kid to Cardozo.

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If I were interviewing for my Ivy I would wonder why the heck this kid's family put him at Cardozo when they clearly had other better options for HS. This kind of thing is transparently conniving unless motivated by the student himself with a clearheaded rationale, such as a desire to be part of his neighborhood school.

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Both parents are teachers but are raising 5 children...so poor is not the word to use because they are rich in other attributes. A pity party acceptance was hardly the reason for my niece and nephew to excel. #perserverance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study"

Except for your child.

Thank you. So sick of the Cornell bashing on this board.