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[quote=Anonymous]18:15 above wrote in part:  " This was not the class of 2014. The nature of conversations changes as the senior year draws to an end. And the kids are just as excited to begin their new life as they are sad to part with old friends."

This is our current experience with our high school senior as well.  Maybe it varies depending upon the high school you attend.  Our child is in a relatively smaller, private school.  Everyone in the class knows perfectly well who are the top students, middle students, and struggling students based on the rigor of the classes they have taken, their comments in those classes, peer review of exams and homework assignments, etc.  When I attended public school, we knew who made the National Honor society as a junior, who didn't  make it until senior year, and who didn't make it at all.  In some privates, there is comparable group (cum laude).  In smaller schools, almost everyone knows each other's business.  This year, as students are accepted early decision/early action to schools -- and often when they are deferred or rejected as well -- almost all of them not only tell each other, they post it on their Facebook pages.

I leave it to others to debate the value of racial,  ethnic or socio-economic status in the college acceptance game, but I assure you that the kids at least at our DC's school know a great deal about their relative academic strengths -- as well as, of course, who is a great athlete, musician, singer, robotics champion etc.  The kids don't know who would be ranked number 4 vs 5 or 26 vs 27, but they have a good idea of what is going on.  They know.    
  
 
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