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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guilty as charged.  I'm certainly not trumpeting this info anywhere other than an anonymous forum! Nevertheless, we are very proud of her and hope her hard work will pay off in at least a couple of good college options.[/quote]

I guess I'll do a gentle (I hope) public service announcement. See, the thing is, your DD and mine could have been separated at birth. My DD looks just like this -- also in a magnet (not RM IB), also lots of 5s on APs, great SATs and GPA and leadership. My feeling is, we're totally justified to feel proud of our DDs' hard work, and we should definitely tell them so. But boasting to anonymous strangers looks gross. It's hard to think of a legitimate purpose behind it, apart from making make other readers feel bad.

Also, sadly, DDs like ours are a dime a dozen in this area.  I cringe when I see the new DCUM parent posting, "DS got a 99th pctile on the WPSSI, is Sidwell to slow for him?"  Our DD's stats are by no means guaranteed to pay off in admissions to an elite college (despite the cue for me to start in on DD's great leadership and extra curriculars). We all need to learn a little humility, and praise hard work without making our DDs or other posters feel bad.[/quote]

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