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Wilson -- except there probably won't be room for them.  Do keep in mind, though, that the high SES kids at Wilson (many of whom are IB) do just as well as their counterparts in private schools and get into the same excellent colleges.[/quote]

They do get into good colleges, but precious few crack top technical schools (MIT, Cal tech), military academies, Ivies, Little Ivies (Amherst, Williams).  I've interviewed top Wilson students for my Ivy as an alum volunteer for nearly a decade and have never seen one admitted, or even wait listed (out of two dozen applicants).  These were the sort of kids who would probably have been getting in had they been coming out of selective admissions programs like Thomas Jefferson, or the Blair math and science and communication magnets.

I was roasted for saying this on another thread ("Who cares about Ivies etc!"), but I've rarely seen a Wilson kid with the prep--8-10 AP classes, SATs all in the 700s, in contention for national science prizes, two AP languages and so forth--to be in the running.  Weak middle school prep seems to be a big part of the problem.  And they appear to take AP classes with too many marginal students, are in classes that are too big, and get little time from guidance counselors.  Wilson is certainly improving, but slowly.

Not sure how relevant Wilson's programs are anyway, given that the days when Hill kids can get in OOB seem to be drawing to a close.  Unless you live on Duddington Pl. or around the corner on D that is - zoned for Wilson since the Barry years!

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