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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would take the more grounded DCC schools over ones like Whitman or BCC. One can find a sizable high-achieving cohort at any MCPS school. Sure, one may have 5 sections of AP English while the other only has 3, but who cares.

Schools like Whitman and BCC are known for having both drug culture and racial issues. I think there was even a kid with a knife running around the parking lot a few months ago. Not to mention all the racial incidents that plague these schools like the N*word cards or kids in blackface. [/quote]

Almost half of the high schools in MCPS, including many of the DCC schools, couldn’t produce a single NMSF this year, so the idea that they all have sizable high-achieving cohorts is laughable. They have small cohorts of above-average kids and large cohorts of below-average kids and kids who may be bright but are below grade level due to their limited education before arriving in this country.  Who do you think gets the lion’s share of the attention at those schools?  [/quote]

What's laughable is your fixation on NMSF as a measure of school desirability. [/quote]

[b]It’s one metri[/b]c.  What’s laughable is the suggestion that mediocre schools are “grounded” when they are actually just weighted down. [/quote]
You're right. It's one metric and we know that the DCC produces more NMSFs than the Bethesda schools.
Another metric: the DCC gets more students admitted to the Ivies than the Bethesda schools.
Want another metric?[/quote]

That doesn't ring true. The last time I checked Bethesda Beats annual college admissions Blair did as well or better on college admission than any W.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2021/09/06/college-bound-6/
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Huh?? What doesn't ring true? You are saying the same thing I said.[/quote]

Looking at Whitman it appears to have more acceptances than blair and most schools worth much and the few that don’t Whitman has a higher acceptance rate per Number of applicants which makes sense because Blair is so much bigger. The fact the smaller school has more prestigious acceptance strikes down the premises of your point.  [/quote]

Why try to make this a competition or rob Blair students of their achievements by undermining them? This just opens a whole Pandora's box of Whitman privilege and parental connections.  Even if you interpret the data the way you did, you will now have to subtract that weighting from the Whitman students' achievements.  Do you really want to go there?[/quote]
It's the need to self-justify buying in the most expensive part of the county.[/quote]

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