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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You asses. People from the worst MoCo schools can make it to the top schools anywhere in the world. I attended a non-W school and kids from my school, myself included, went to top national universities, liberal arts school, and service academies. Get over your insecurities. If we were in NYC where it really matters if you don't make it into the top magnets such as Stuy, Brooklyn Tech, or Bronx Science, then you have a point. But this is MoCo where the top kid in the worst school is prepared for Harvard.

The point of the board is where does RM stand w/o the IB and the reality is that it is below Whitman. You can argue all day about the wealth at Whitman and how that impacts the scores but the reality is that Whitman has always had a strong academic culture. If the school I attended as a kid has 20% if the student body that were academically focused then Whitman had 60%. My guess is that if you remove the IB from RM, then 30% of the remaining students are academically focused whereas Whitman is still 60-70%. Check to see where kids applied and were accepted. RM w/o IB would be hard pressed to do as well as any of the W schools or Blair Magnet. That does not mean that RM is not a good a school. It is, as I have stated before, but it is not Whitman and Whitman is not Blair and Blair is not Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson is not Sidwell Friends. [b]To me it does not matter because I would rather my kid go to the worst school here in the DC suburbs than study at 95% of the school systems in the US. [/b] [/quote]

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