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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. [b]The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. [/b]None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it.  If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go. [/quote]

Looking at Latin's college acceptances so far this year announced on Instagram, and I'm seeing Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, Tufts... There's only 90 or so seniors at Latin so it's substantially smaller than SWW, less than half the size of DCI and is a small fraction of the size of those behemoth high schools in the burbs. [/quote]

Take what's announced on Instagram with a grain of salt. Often it's a handful of seniors getting into multiple top schools. What you can't look at is the [b]crazy expensive and exhausting supplementing the UMC families have invariably done [/b]to achieve these results. We know some of these families.  It's not uncommon for Latin families to fork out 10K or more a year to bump up the education ("cheaper than Sidwell!"). Easy to pretend that Latin did it all but not realistic or honest. [/quote]

I don't understand the bolded. Probably because it makes no sense and is just sour grapes. Elite private schools and wealthy public high schools are all systemically built-in supplementation.

What if I told you there was a charter school in DC with 69 graduates, all of whom are going to college and these were some of the schools they were attending. Would 20%+ attending elite schools convince you that the school and its curriculum and reputation were doing at least some of the work?

University of Chicago (2)
Cornell University 
Harvard University 
Princeton University 
University of Pennsylvania 
Yale University
Duke University 
Johns Hopkins University 
Carnegie Mellon University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
University of Virginia (2)

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This misses a few including some top SLACS. Also:

Columbia
Vanderbilt
UNC-CH
Amherst
Wellesley
Barnard (2)
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