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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]True story.  A friend of mine whose daughter attended MCPS through HS is now at Towson University.  She is struggling because she doesn't know how to study.  Because she never had exposure to mid term or final exams, she is having to learn how to study and is considering dropping a class or two.  This is so sad.

Also, she was an honor student in HS FWIW.[/quote]
True story, lots of MCPS kids go to top colleges, and they know how to study, and get good grades there.[/quote]

I am talking about average kids here, not the ones who are going to magnets and W schools.  Students who never take an AP class don't get exposure to cumulative testing experiences.  There are lots of these kids, and if they can't succeed at a school like Towson, that is not a good look on MCPS.  Sorry.[/quote]
I know it's shocking but there are actually kids outside of magnet and W schools that do go to great colleges.[/quote]

Of course there are. But not many. [/quote]
and there are "not many" from catholics who get into great colleges.[/quote]

There seemed to be a lot of people in the Catholic club at Princeton when I was there, but I agree a lot of my Catholic peers chose Notre Dame or Georgetown rather than excellent secular options.[/quote]

"Because of its Presbyterian roots, Princeton did not really welcome “papists” until the early years of the twentieth century. Today, Catholics make up 20 to 25 percent of the student body, or roughly 1,200 students, and are the largest single religious group on campus."  https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/catholicism-campus#:~:text=Because%20of%20its%20Presbyterian%20roots,single%20religious%20group%20on%20campus.[/quote]

Do you realize that many Catholics don’t go to Catholic school, right?[/quote]

PP here.  Princeton reports that 13 percent of the Class of 2026 attended “religious affiliated” high schools, the majority of which presumably were Catholic.  Another 17 percent attended independent day schools and 9 percent attended boarding schools.  Sixty percent attended public schools.  So it appears that both public and Catholic school graduates are underrepresented at Princeton, but public schools are the most poorly represented of them all. [/quote]

Less than 13 percent of high schoolers in America graduate from Catholic schools but 13 percent of Princeton students hail from them, so they are over represented. I went to Dartmouth, after 12 years of Catholic school, and found a ton of peers there from Catholic school. Like a previous poster said many of my classmates chose top Catholic colleges rather than applying to the Ivy League.[/quote]

As PP said, why would you assume all of the graduates from religious schools are Catholic?  Many, if not most, of the top schools in not just the DMV but in other cities are religious, but not Catholic.  I’d be willing to bet at least half of this 13 percent attended non-Catholic religious school.  [b]Sidwell, St. Alban’s and NCS send more kids to the ivies than all the Catholic high schools in this area combined.[/quote][/b]

This is absolutely false.  Visi, Stone Ridge, Gonzaga, Prep, Heights, St. Anselms, DeMatha, St.Johns will easily send more kids to Ivies each year than Sidwell, NCS and St. Albans combined.  Plus they will send another 80-100 kids to Notre Dame each year.   And I'm leaving out another dozen or so independent and parochial Catholic schools in the DMV. [/quote]

A different poster here. I have no idea what is true and what isn’t true about the numbers, but I have little doubt guess that there are more Ivy legacies at these top independent privates, and that has something to do with the disproportionate representation of their graduates at Ivy League schools[/quote]

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