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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Social capital wise, there probably isn't an equivalent.

The magnets and top tracks at some suburban schools here have [b]similarly-talented students though.[/b][/quote]

Similarly talented in private? Lol[/quote]

I'm going to eyeball the list of National Merit Semifinalists from last year.

DC has 21 private NMSF, 6 public NMSF. All of the latter go to the School Without Walls.

That, of course, is the easy one. Now let's check out Northern Virginia, as far South as Fredericksburg and as far west as Loudoun, and you owe me for counting this all up. I may have missed or misclassified a couple, but I think this is at least close to correct:

The big kahoona, of course, is TJ, which has 132 NMSF. 
Other publics in NOVA have 143 NMSF
Private + homeschool in Northern Virginia have 33 NMSF.

So ~10% of  Northern Virginia high level talent is coming from private schools, which I believe is somewhat larger than the percent of students in private high schools, though I can't lay my hands on that data at the moment.

TJ has a lot of weight in this. I predict that the relative NMSF balance will shift towards private as the local schools continue with the memorizing-multiplication-tables-is-racist brand of equity, but I guess we'll see.

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