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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every one of the top DCI admits are first-generation URM (under represented minorities).  Which is GREAT!

But makes these elite admits completely irrelevant to most of us on this site.  
If you are white and your kid is at the top of the DCI class they'll be going to Pitt or Wisconsin or similar.  
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This is an excellent point. IB Diploma point totals in the 20s will mostly work for low-SES, first-generation URMs aiming high in college admissions.

Not the rest of us. [/quote]

Are there stats on this or is that too identifiable for FERPA? Top schools require IB scores in the mid-30s. I'm really trying to reconcile such low pass rates with the college acceptances reported on this thread. I don't think they're lying, but as someone who went to state school for undergrad and an ivy for grad, I can attest your average MC white kid has to work their butt off and score REALLY high to get into a top college. An IB diploma alone is not going to cut it. [/quote]

Again, the kids reported above who are getting into the elite schools from DCI are all URM.  Most are first gen college students and several are recent immigrants to the US.  They're not average MC white kids.  At all.  Very far from it. 
It's incredibly exciting for them but the IB point totals for the school are completely irrelevant to these kids' acceptances.  
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I personally know DCI kids who have gotten into several of the most selective schools this year, including some who are neither URMs nor legacies, just great students (And yes, there happen to be many excellent students at DCI, across all races and socioeconomics).  As for the URMs who have gotten admitted to these schools, they are all super impressive and just as deserving.  Remember that the colleges everyone on this forum is so obsessed with have admissions rates of 3-10%, so out of of 100 kids at a non-magnet, socioeconomically diverse public school, how many do you think should be getting admitted to schools like this, realistically?? Only a handful, right? Of course, no one should assume, even based on the success of this year's seniors, that graduating from DCI with an IB diploma will ensure admission to the most selective college.  As is true for any diverse public school, the top 10% will have the most competitive options, and the next 50% will also have very good college options.  
In any case, don't go just go by the stuff DCI's detractors assume or make up on this forum. Check out DCI's FB over the next month - they are releasing a couple student profiles and college choices a day, seemingly at random.  You'll see there, if you have the patience to wait for them all to come out, how well the class of 2025 has done and how widespread the success has been.

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DCI's detractors? How about stakeholders/tax payers who'd like to see better college acceptances/results for their tax dollars from a city that could produce them fairly easily.

The propaganda only gets DCPC so far.  DCI's FB page, please.[/quote]

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