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[quote=Anonymous]I went to RM IB (graduated mid 1990s).  IB was useful if you wanted to be a fine arts, European history, or foreign language major; it really didn't offer much opportunity if you were primarily interested in science, engineering, computer science, or math.  Whitman and Churchill kids seemed to have a much easier time getting into Harvard-Yale-Princeton, though there may have been some legacy advantage there.  Part of the issue was that there was so much competition for grades at RM that someone who went to RM IB could easily have been a valedictorian at, say, Magruder.

The kids I know who went to Whitman or Churchill are now mostly doctors, surgeons, and professors.  The kids I know who went to RM--though brilliant--mostly went on to unremarkable careers tangentially related to social studies, liberal arts or fine arts.  I suspect that what happened was that those fields offered little opportunity.

I hope to send my kid to Churchill and would choose it over RM's IB.[/quote]

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