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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The rich students in MCPS have the same advantages. It’s really a rich vs poor issue not a private vs public issue. But yes, it is really unfair![/quote]

It's actually not.  Private schools have the benefit of lower student to college counselor ratios.  And it helps.  I have a niece at an expensive but middling private high school in Montgomery County.  Proportionally, the college matriculation stats at this school are mind boggling and I know her peers aren't taking the amount of AP classes, say, kids in the 'W' zoned schools are taking and their standardized tests scores are likely not better.  But their college counseling admissions staff really pounds the pavement for these kids - 85% of their graduating students received merit scholarships.  And given the income level of these parents, those kids don't even need the money.   [/quote]

So, 85% of their students ended up at lower tier schools where they are really standing out above the crowd?  I don't think that's what "W" zoned families find ideal.[/quote]

No - they ended up at very competitive colleges, including some Ivy League institutions. They have the kind of advantages you just don’t and will never have in public school. [/quote]

Very competitive colleges don’t give out merit scholarships. Try again.[/quote]

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