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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality is that many of the highest-performing Latin HS students still leave for Walls.  You get roughly 20 students capable of making it to the most highly competitive colleges in any given class of Latin students, and more than 100 from a Walls class.  Unless a high performer is very happy at Latin socially, it's not necessarily worth staying if Walls is an option. 
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Long time Latin parent here. Your post is 1) untrue—it isn’t the highest academic  performers who leave for Walls, it is those who want more sports or a bigger/different social scene and 2) not sure if your numbers are right on admissions to highly competitive colleges but….duh.  Latin is an open enrollment school. Takes anyone. No test. No minimum requirements. Walls is a selective academic magnet school. Of course more of their students gain admission to the most highly competitive colleges—that is where those students are applying and they have been pre selected for academic performance.  If your number of ~20 students from Latin gain admission to highly competitive colleges each year, that is damn impressive! That’s roughly 25% of the entire school achieving that each and every year. And you should check out the astronomical scholarship totals they earn.  At an open enrollment DC Public School. Super impressive. That’s where I want my students.[/quote]

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