Transfer from Big 3 to BCC in high school w/ college admissions in mind

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Anonymous wrote:We all know what school you are talking about, FYI. IMO, why don't you write a letter to the school that details all of your valid concerns. I happen to know what school you are talking about because parents are always complaining about it in the private school forum. I can't understand why you don't organize, band together, write a letter/petition, and give it to the board. The school is founded on justice and using your influence in positive ways, so why don't you try that before pulling out of a school that your child enjoys?

For those in the back row, it’s GDS.

Because OP’s child is a white boy so at minimum, such complaints will fall on deaf ears and beyond that, they run the risk of being seen to be leaving for reasons other than college admissions.

The school should institute AP classes, which they announced they were stopping well before this lady’s kid entered high school, because she complains? Sure make it about her kid being a white boy and not because it’s an insane demand to make on a school. Example 21836295 of misguided white victimhood.

Leaving GDS for BCC is misguided white victimhood....

No. Thinking the school would refuse to restart AP classes because a white kid asked for it (as opposed to the fact that it’s an insane demand) is an example of misguided white grievance. Leaving GDS for BCC because you think it will help your kid get into a state flagship is a first world problem.

Restarting AP classes is not an insane demand. It’s recalibrating a decision that was made before the pandemic and is wrong for the new admissions reality.

Why did they get rid of APs? What has changed that would make them reconsider?

They are getting spanked in admissions.

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I can’t imagine paying for private if my kid was finning to go to a public school. But didn’t parents already have to put money down in privates for next year?

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Anonymous wrote:I think YOU are thinking these things- not your kid. No kid is talking about T30 and weighted GPAs. If YOU want to make this change, say so.

I can’t speak to the benefit of switching, just here to say I think you’re putting words in your kid’s mouth.

Also- college counseling is non existent at MCPS, so even “weak” and “disorganized “ beats … nonexistent!

Good point on college counseling.

I was not putting words in kid's mouth. You should see what the seniors are talking about. School had to have a meeting with seniors to tell kids to stop "bullying" URM kids who got into HYP. Kids are more sophisticated than you think. Like I said, i do not want the kid to change. But feel free to believe what floats your boat

That seems like a good reason for the kid to change.

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Anonymous wrote:I think YOU are thinking these things- not your kid. No kid is talking about T30 and weighted GPAs. If YOU want to make this change, say so.

I can’t speak to the benefit of switching, just here to say I think you’re putting words in your kid’s mouth.

Also- college counseling is non existent at MCPS, so even “weak” and “disorganized “ beats … nonexistent!

Good point on college counseling.

I was not putting words in kid's mouth. You should see what the seniors are talking about. School had to have a meeting with seniors to tell kids to stop "bullying" URM kids who got into HYP. Kids are more sophisticated than you think. Like I said, i do not want the kid to change. But feel free to believe what floats your boat

That seems like a good reason for the kid to change.

Don’t be a bully.

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Anonymous wrote:I think YOU are thinking these things- not your kid. No kid is talking about T30 and weighted GPAs. If YOU want to make this change, say so.

I can’t speak to the benefit of switching, just here to say I think you’re putting words in your kid’s mouth.

Also- college counseling is non existent at MCPS, so even “weak” and “disorganized “ beats … nonexistent!

I believe it's true. My 8th grader thinks about these things but DC has an older sibling. Maybe OP's child has older siblings or cousins.

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Anonymous wrote:I think YOU are thinking these things- not your kid. No kid is talking about T30 and weighted GPAs. If YOU want to make this change, say so.

I can’t speak to the benefit of switching, just here to say I think you’re putting words in your kid’s mouth.

Also- college counseling is non existent at MCPS, so even “weak” and “disorganized “ beats … nonexistent!

Good point on college counseling.

I was not putting words in kid's mouth. You should see what the seniors are talking about. School had to have a meeting with seniors to tell kids to stop "bullying" URM kids who got into HYP. Kids are more sophisticated than you think. Like I said, i do not want the kid to change. But feel free to believe what floats your boat

PP you were replying to here and I believe you now. This sounds miserable for the kids- I’m sorry.

I’m of two minds- is your son a freshman? And you say he wants to make a move? Then maybe going public for 10-12 grade would make sense. But if he’s happy there- and you have the dough to pay that tuition plus four more years of college- then I would stay. It’s not going to be demonstrably better at a public.

You didn’t say which way he leans in terms of interest. If he’s interested in science/math/CS/engineering? Then move right now. The classes available and the level of the other students is just so much better in public (this info from my friend who used to work at a private HS and who said she’d never send her son to private if he leaned in the science way…)

Good luck, OP.

+1 I think this is good advice. If you do move to BCC, I assume you could spend some of the saved tuition on an outside college counselor.

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Anonymous wrote:Colleges aren’t particularly interested in upper middle class white or Asian kids right now as an institutional priority. The high school matter less than the demographics.

+1 you'll still be coming from a public school that is viewed as relatively well-off and in the heart of Bethesda and the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m also one of the people in the back row. When and why did GDS get rid of AP courses?

PS I’m a BCC parent, daughter is a white girl, she’s semi-hooked and working hard to be fully hooked because even from BCC a bunch of 5s on APs aren’t going to get her where she may want to go.

PSS Generally very happy with BCC - great value for the money : )

Here's when and why dropped:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-schools-got-rid-of-ap-courses-heres-why/2018/06/18/24018654-7316-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html

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Probably better luck applying from Jackson-Reed or some other DC high school. If you're willing to switch schools, might as well be willing to rent for the rest of high school, too.