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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one on these threads is more smug than people posting about their "elite" GS 9 schools. You all want to go on and on about your cohorts and high achieving peer pressure. 
You are dumb.
You are also hurting your kids. 
But keep piling on all that pressure. 
We'll just be over here at our lesser schools with happy and successful kids. Carry on.
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I posted earlier about the pass rates at Hayf and West Po.  I didn't post the pass rates for the higher end schools... but just FYI -- the pass rates for the higher SES schools are 25-30% points higher across the board.  In some AP classes, it is 35-65% higher.  Yes, there are always 25+ percent of the AP class takers who pass the exam at the lower tier schools (sometimes it is more like 65%).... but frequently, the higher SES schools have pass rates 35-65% higher.  What if your kid is in that gap?  We're not talking about kids who are in the middle or low end of the entire 11th-12th grade class.  We're talking about the subset of kids willing to take harder AP classes.... there is a gap among those kids where more of the higher-motivated kids are failing the AP exams at some schools compared to other schools.  No one has addressed this discrepancy.

It does not really move the discussion forward to bicker and present anecdotes about how kid A or kid B did really well and got into UVA/Swarthmore/Stanford.  Let's look at the bigger picture and address the data in a way that makes sense.  No one knows for sure how their children will do at either a high or low SES school until they actually go there.  Instead of single data points, let's talk about observable facts relating to larger groups of kids.  Anyone care to explain the AP pass data?[/quote]

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