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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i thought wilson was supposed to be this amazing school. i went to a public high school in a small town in a farm state and, every single year, the valedictorian, and sometimes also the no. 2, went to harvard. the next ten kids all went to other ivies or other highly regarded schools.  i would have thought wilson would blow that out of the water. [/quote]

It's much easier to get into Harvard for an equally qualified student from a rural school in a farm state versus a Mid-Atlantic/New England student. Also, I call BS that your school was just run-of-the-mill public school. At the high school attended by my rural family, very few went to college, none out of state, and vanishingly few completed college.[/quote]

i guess it was not run-of-the-mill in the sense that it was in the wealthy section of town. but this was a town of 30,000 people, where the most expensive house in town costs less than $350K. and i didnt say everyone went to harvard, or even to college at all.  once you got out of the top ten percent of students -- which was, like, 15 students -- the pictures changes pretty rapidly. most people in my class didnt go to college at all. and, yeah, there's no question that if you're a good student in a small town in the middle of nowhere, you're probably more attractive to colleges than a similar student in a big city. good students from the dc area are probably a dime a dozen in some schools' eyes. 
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My nephew was valedictorian in an area just as you describe in the Midwest. No ivy acceptances and he struggled at his well-regarded liberal arts school. Smart kid who is now getting a PhD. The HS curriculum and college acceptance rate has changed dramatically. My in-laws are “surprised” that we send kids to dcps based on stereotypes such as in this thread. But, we would put our kids’ education up to theirs any day. Deal is excellent at teaching current issues like social justice, the environment, human trafficking, etc. They are prepared for the real world.

While not every kid in the Midwest is sheltered, or unprepared, or unworldly, we are confident that our kids will be better prepared than many. Don’t need to go to an ivy either and probably won’t. Pp doesn’t understand how competitive it is, and has been. Kids who get perfect scores on SAT and ACT with excellent grades don’t get in to ivies. We know one (who wasn’t at Wilson).

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