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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Posters have lost the forest for the trees.

The point has been made that high-flying DCI students who learned whatever language via ES immersion must compete with other high-flying, language-learning DC Metro area students for admission to elite colleges.  Like it or not, their applications will go into the same pots as those of competitors who have been enrolled dual immersion K-12th grade language programs in the area. It's a fair point.

If you enroll your child in immersion language studies but avoid native speaking families as a general rule (because you think the parents are racist jerks), you cut off your nose to spite your face in the process.  In the last analysis, the joke is on your family, not the native speakers. [/quote]
If you think that my Chinese-speaking AA kid who graduates from a DC public high school is going in the same admissions bucket as your heritage kid from Montgomery County, then you don't understand how college admissions work.[/quote]

Actually, I do understand, all too well, at least for private colleges with highly competitive admissions.  I worked on an Ivy League admissions committee (that of my alma mater) for several years, and currently work as a public high school college counselor.

My alma mater has long used one "greater Washington DC area"applications basket, first by hand/hard copy, then by computer. They toss applications from DC privates into it this e-basket, along with those from DC publics, NoVA and MoCo publics.  This is common practice in elite college admissions. Many elite colleges do this for Metro areas, particularly NYC, Boston and Chicago. The downtowns and near burbs of a city are often treated as a single geographical entity for admissions purposes.

Private colleges can of course categorize and review applications however they like. FARMs and 1st generation college applicants are given special treatment in admissions, but other DC public HS applicants seldom are.[/quote]

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