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[quote=Anonymous]“DC” is a huge, diverse area, especially if you count the DMV. Where you end up matters.  My kid is at TJ, and lots of super smart introverts come in knowing no one.  I would imagine it’s the same at many of the private HSs and competitive entry magnets.  One of DD’s friends is going to Madeira. Knows no one, but on all sorts of meeting people lists.

In base schools in FCPS, you kid would be better off places with more transient populations (military, diplomats) or places with screwed up feeders.  Carson MS splits into 4 HSs.  So everyone ends up losing a big part of their friend group.  I’m not sure what the comparable part of DC or MD is.

Having BTDT with kids going into 5th and 7th, and then later TJ, I would suggest moving around Memorial Day and joining the neighborhood pool.  Try to get your kid hooked up with community summer activities.  Beginning of summer at Carson, and most kids with an instrument head to Franklin Band and strings camp for 3 weeks of half days. It’s low key and a way to meet people, but not a lot of social pressure. If you post in the appropriate school forum what your school is, people will tell you what the kids do over the summer.

And STRONGLY encourage your kid to go out for a freshman sports team or marching band in the fall. Or join the fall drama production. Sports and band practice will start and become intense in the 3-4 weeks before school starts, and it is a good way to instantly become part of a group. Your kid does not have to be any good, or get a single minute of playing time. If they know the other 11 members of the JV volleyball team well enough to have a lab partner in chemistry and someone to eat lunch with, it’s a start.

And don’t worry. The DMV has a lot of super smart kids. And a lot of kids whose parents move them in at inconvenient times for jobs. There are more people like your kid than you might realize. [/quote]

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