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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're so right.  I feel terrible for colleges like Columbia, Penn, Barnard, Smith, Wesleyan, Middlebury, NYU, GWU, Sewanee, & Skidmore, who are stuck educating last year's graduates of the "dysfunctional" TC Williams.  And poor Duke, Bucknell, UNC Chapel Hill & Penn State (saddled with 2 TC grads each!).  Not to mention UVA (18), VTech (13), William & Mary (3), JMU (4), GMU (15), VCU (10).  Whatever will they do with so many terrible students from this dysfunctional school????

Okay, I get that you're more comfortable with a school where only 8% or 13% of the kids are economically disadvantaged (McLean &  Yorktown, respectively), instead of the 58% at TC Williams.  But don't pretend that you left b/c your kids could not get a good education there.    [/quote]

Honey. The good high schools don't need to trot out their anomalous college placements. TC has a graduation rate of under 80 percent.

It's very well known that if you're white and bright you can survive TC and leverage the stigma into a top college placement. But please don't imply that TC is a college prep environment because, really it is not, except for a subset of students. Some of us don't want our children to be in such a cynical education environment.

But, hey, if it makes you feel better to keep yelling "But! Penn! Columbia!" then more power to you.[/quote]

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