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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This list is not an advertisement for the high school. It is a congratulatory note to children who have just competed 12'years of schooling.[/quote]

It is a congratulatory note that lists the colleges to which they have been accepted.

The kids did great - I'm happy for all of them.

But when I look at the list to evaluate Latin, I see three of the USNWR top 50 schools overall (Case Western Reserve, U of Rochester, Penn State), four of the top 50 liberal arts colleges  (Barnard, Colby College, Lafayette, Oberlin, Denison), and three of the top 50 public schools (U of Maryland. Rutgers, Vermont) .

To me that does not look great - I'd like to see more highly rated schools.  But maybe I am missing something.  (And yes, I know the USNWR ratings are not the be-all and end-all of lists).

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I think you are missing the fact that as another person said, these kids got into what was for them "personal reach" schools.  Just look at the DC CAS scores at the HS, the ranking of which which is at least one below the MS (reward vs something), and the fact that the MS scored 2nd to Deal two years ago and 3rd (switching places with Basis) this year, while the high school is nowhere near that, the difference in the economic positions of the MS vs the HS, and realize that the times, they are a changing.

These kids who are graduating now, like the kids who are at the first four classes at BASIS, took a huge risk on an unproven school to escape their neighborhoods.  Latin had only been in existence for 4 years at the time.  And if you JUST are starting Washington Latin now, if your "heart is beating for MIT" you should have gone to BASIS, but otherwise you and your kid are going to be just fine as long as you work to reverse the 4 year declines delineated in the Tier I / Tier 2 thread below.  THAT is really what MS parents should be worrying about, NOT college acceptances for this class, which given their composition and their need for scholarship money (and their success in getting it) I think is pretty darn impressive.

Congratulations to the Washington Latin senior class of 2015!

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