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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. She would be coming from private. She would be fine with our public HS, though she really loves some of these schools.[/quote]

I have kids at two of the schools you mentioned and have watched 9th grade admissions closely for the past 3 years (as I had kids applying 2 out of the 3).

Your child's biggest competition (by far) is kids coming from her own middle school.  [b]Most of these schools will not admit more than 3 kids from any one middle school.  It's often 1 kid per sending school. 
They love to say "we have kids coming in from 30 different middle schools/Zip codes[/b], etc).  I clearly remember this from Potomac's 9th grade accepted student day.

So who else is applying from your daughter's class?  If there are siblings, legacy, etc you may very well be out of luck.  If your daughter is the strongest kid applying to a high school, she may
have a very good chance of admission.  
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It's been much more lumpy experience from my experience at our private school.  Some years a bunch of kids will get into a single school and other years a smaller number.  It depends on the cohort of students.  A strong cohort may do very well, a weaker cohort less so.  It also depends on how many kids plan to move back to public for HS, whether those are the stronger students in the grade. And it can depend on how many strong students have an older sibling at these highly competitive HS.

Generally, your list is good - definitely show interest in ALL of the schools you apply to.  But you do need a back up, whether that be public or a less competitive private.  Our DC visited the local HS for a shadow day when making the choice of whether the backup option was public or private.[/quote]

Forgot to add that the "zipcode" statement doesn't really apply to our private MS - as you could easily accept 5 kids from a single grade and have them all be from different zipcodes. Also, 5+  acceptances from the same grade has happened from our school to all the schools on your list (not sure of NCS) more than once over the past 6 years or so (but usually not two years in a row....like I said...it's lumpy). Coming from a strong k-8 with good placement office will definitely be a benefit.  Be sure to communicate your preferences because they try to put efforts to place kids with a good match.  [/quote]

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