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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "better" the school the higher the expectations of individual achievement will be. College admissions officers will assume a student from certain schools will have had all the advantages in life, so will expect higher achievement from the student in terms of coursework, standardized tests, and extracurricular activities. Students from schools with a more average socioeconomic standing are assumed to have worked hard for their achievements without necessarily having the advantage of parents with higher incomes and education levels. 
A friend who is an alum of an ivy-level school was told this by and admissions rep at a workshop for alums and their children.
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You could just as easily find another admissions officer who thinks it's an advantage to attend a school known for its academic quality.   Anecdotes abound.

Really, if parents thought their kids would have a leg up in the admissions process by attending a school with high-poverty, low SES numbers, half of you would have enrolled your kids in DCPS or PG schools years ago.  It just doesn't work that way.  The collective wisdom is that the benefits of sending your kids to schools with high-achieving peers outweigh the possibility that some college admissions officer may claim he or she considers them "a dime a dozen" and favors students from schools with lower SES numbers.

As between Langley and Oakton, of course, there's not a big enough difference to spend much time worrying about which school is "better."[/quote]

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