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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New poster.  I graduated from Princeton, a school which has seen but a handful of admits from Banneker in the last decade.  I know because, almost every spring, I attend a function for DC admits and ask those organizing the event if any Banneker kids are on the invitation list.

[/quote] Just curious, why do you specifically ask about Banneker kids at this function?  Are you keeping track for a reason?[/quote]

23:19 again.  I keep track of the Princeton-bound Banneker traffic because I grew up poor and care about getting DCPS kids to Ivy League schools, wishing a lot more were submitting competitive applications.  I also like to ask how many Wilson and Walls kids get in.

My strong impression is that the instruction at Banneker isn't the problem, it's weak elementary and middle-school prep for the brightest and most disciplined kids.  Lack of diversity also hurts the kids: with few upper middle-class peers, students' professional and intellectual horizons remain uneccessarily narrow.   If there's a group out there positioned to accrue the greatest benefit from a test-in MS program, it's the Banneker crowd.

My strong impression is that too many Banneker kids who would have been Ivy league material with the right inputs settle for lesser schools as a matter of course.  Without GT programs, or a white DCPS HS population anywhere near proportionate to the city's white population, many Banneker kids aren't getting as far as they could have if they were building on a stronger academic foundation from a younger age.

I'm not under the impression that the Banneker guidance counselors care much about Ivy League admissions, which I conider a shame (even if most members of the school community would disagree).

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