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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's an old asian proverb "it is better to be the head of the snake than the tail of the dragon."  Lewis is a snake school and some students have better outcomes if the measure is choice college acceptance.  [/quote]

The problem is that this argument is not accompanied by facts, and people worry that, with a weaker peer group, Lewis students won't progress as much by the time they are seniors as students at other schools.  Lewis typically doesn't have any National Merit Semifinalists, average test scores are low, and there's no indication that any sizable number of Lewis students are getting IB diplomas. [/quote]

you are 100% correct.  They will be underprepared for college and will not perform as well.  But there are certainly instances each year where a Lewis student of a particularly ethnicity is accepted to UVa, for example, while his/her peer with equal and perhaps higher marks at WSHS is not accepted to UVa.  So in this case I would argue the Lewis student has a better outcome by being the head of the snake.  [/quote]

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