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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We did SH and are now at Banneker. No regrets. But I know folks have real issues with SH. [/quote]

No regrets because your kid got into Banneker! [/quote]

Pretty much everyone from the DCUM kids crew at SH this year got into Walls, Banneker or Duke. Most got their first choice of those. The minority who didn’t seemed to share a 7th grade English teacher, so choose wisely.[/quote]

No, this is not true based on data given.

If you assume Walls is 5 kids for the <10, and count Banneker and Duke, that is only 26% of the class go into application high school.

This is based on the assumption that you even want your kid to go to all 3 schools which is a very, very small number of families if any.

If you just look at Walls and Banneker for kids from SH, it’s about only 14%.  Again based on the assumption that families want both schools which some don’t. These numbers are not good. [/quote]

Data is from SY24-25. Presumably this person is talking about SY25-26 admissions.[/quote]

And you think 1 year is going to make any significant difference and it still won’t be less than 10 kids to Walls out of about 150 kids?

Best case scenario with 9 kids, that is 6%.  Worst case with 2 it’s like 1%[/quote]

I think you're not doing an appropriate comparison and therefore have no standing to say whether or not PP's anecdote is accurate.

It's probably not that different year to year, but many people are fine with an outcome other than Walls.[/quote]

I think admissions are getting more competitive every year, not less. Moving to a MS on the assumption that your kid will get into Walls is not very smart. [/quote]

If the only acceptable outcome is Walls, then sure. I don't think that's the conversation here.[/quote]

Banneker isn’t a lock either. Duke is very particular and McKinley isn’t for everyone.[/quote]

Not an application school but DCI does offer some spots for 9th but not many. You can list them also for high school.  But going in this late, your kid won’t be in the highest track in lots of subjects and unlikely to get the IB diploma because of the language test.
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Plenty of kids in schools outside of DCI speak better Spanish than the kids at DCI.  The language test isn’t a problem for them.[/quote]

It is not just speaking is what you don’t understand.  Are they able to read and comprehend novels and books of literature.  Are they able to write whole papers in spanish at a high school level.

If not, then no matter if they do speak spanish, they are not going to pass the IB language test which is much harder than the AP.[/quote]

You seriously think only kids at DCI can read and understand literature in Spanish as well as write papers in Spanish at a high school level?  Of course there are kids outside of DCI that can do this and at a higher level than most DCI kids.  These are children of Embassy staff and the World Bank.  Kids of parents that were university professors in Latin America.  You think their kids can’t write a high school paper in Spanish?   Please.[/quote]

New poster here.  You’re being ridiculous.

Of course there are kids outside of DCI whose Spanish language skills beyond speaking are at least as good or better than a typical Spanish track DCI kid.  It’s a big town with lots of kids with lots of different strengths and experiences.

But cmon, be serious and stop fighting just for the sake of fighting.  Take out the native speakers and no, there’s probably not a whole lot of middle school kids who are as advanced in Spanish as your typical DCI Spanish track kid.  [/quote]

THIS.  It’s laughable that PP thinks embassy staff and world bank people are the majority of native speakers in this town. They are not and are such a small percentage.

[b]The overwhelming majority of native speakers in this town are uneducated immigrants who do not read or write at anywhere near a high school level.  And their kids sure don’t.  I would argue that yes the high performing kids in the IB diploma track are better than even many native speakers in this town.[/b]

As to non-natives, no contest.[/quote]

Wow!  Is this how DCI families feel about immigrants?[/quote]

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