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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread must surely be student/teenager driven. The notion that attendance at one of these aforementioned schools rather than another will make a toots worth of difference to a college admissions director is absurd.

College admissions depends on at least a dozen different variables if not more.  Simply graduating from a particular high school will not guarantee acceptance to any single college or even any group of colleges.

High achieving well balanced students will be accepted by top-tier colleges and lower achieving students probably will not. In all likelihood all of the schools mentioned in this thread have a mixture of higher and lower achieving students.

Certainly the distasteful rancor on this thread about "my school is better than your school" must be driven by student rivalries and not by mature responsible knowing adults. [/quote]

If you talk to college admissions people, the reputation/profile of the school does matter.  Is it dispositive?  Of course not.  Is a 4.0 average at St. Albans/Sidwell/GDS/NCS looked at as more difficult to achieve than a 4.0 at Bullis?  Yes.  That's why colleges still rely on standardized scores -- to allow them to compare apples to apples.  And many highly selective schools have long-time admissions staff that are quite aware of the gradations in rigor of the area independents.

If people are paying top dollar, it is reasonable that they know what they are getting.  For Bullis, the academic reputation and strength of the cohort are not as strong as for a number of other schools (compare the National Merit Semifinalist totals for a proxy look at strength of cohort).  Are students who attend Bullis nevertheless getting the benefit of strong teaching from dedicated and skilled teachers, in small class sizes?  I'm sure they are.    [/quote]

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