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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Before I ever saw Banneker's test scores or heard about how is was the pride of DC schools I saw the Banneker team on Its Academic one Saturday morning.  I think that show is  running.  In any event, I have a very strong memory of thinking the Banneker team was so out of its league I felt sorry for them.

[b]It is all well and good that students and their families do not care that the school does not have a broader appeal across all DC [/b]demographics, but You cannot think of yourselves as going to a world class competitive high school until your school becomes desirable to many.  It sounds like it is a fine school that serves its student body well.  It is not a sch

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Having interviewed one or two Banneker students applying to my Ivy almost every year for the past decade, I'm not convinced that the best students don't in fact care that the school lacks broad appeal.  What I hear from the kids is that they know Banneker can't compete with the best public HS programs around the country, which are more diverse.  They attend because they lack better options, Sidwell, TJ, Blair MoCo magnet programs etc.  I've never interviewed a kid who was so much as wait-listed, and not for lack of discipline, or brains for that matter.  One student convinced me to give a talk on Ivy League admissions after having been rejected - she wanted her younger sister, and other 10th graders, to learn about the sort of prep the competition would probably be getting, e.g. 8-10 AP classes (from what I've seen, the best Banneker students tend to take half this course load), INTEL and Siemens prize competition work etc.

My impression has been that Banneker works better for the sort of parents, administrators, teachers and college guidance counselors who will be furious if the Supreme Court waters down, or even tosses out, affirmative action college admissions next year than it does for the most able kids.

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