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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our Big 3, the academically strongest students tend to be new 9th graders (unless they’re athletic recruits). I have yet to come across an athletic recruit who was also a top student academically. The recruits tend to be average students, at best. [/quote]

Kids from our k-8 tend to graduate in the top quartile (or better) in their high schools. Several have become national merit finalists and/or valedictorians (in schools where that is measured). A Big 3 admissions officer came to DC's school and told the 8th graders that not only do the kids from DC's school thrive in high school, they tend to excel while there. Certainly that does not apply for every kid graduating coming from the school, but those who go on to the top schools typically end up at a T20/25 college. It makes sense because 9th grade admissions is the most rigorous out there. Kids have to have a track record that demonstrates they can handle the school's rigor and they really have to step things up in middle school in anticipation of that.[/quote]

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