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[quote=Anonymous]I'm also concerned about challenge at DCI, if they get their charter (looks like it). I say this having inteviewed dozens of DCPS applicants for MIT without seeing one admitted, or even wait listed.

If you're serious about admissions to colleges admitting 15% of applicants (including the military academies) or fewer for your DC, you might want to find and talk to somebody like me, or the PP from the Little Ivy.  DCPS teachers, parents, and guidance counselors love to tell seniors at SWW, Wilson. Banneker, and now the Latin kids, that they're just as well prepared as top students at DC privates and suburban magnets, when they aren't.  Not even close, although this is slowly changing, particularly at Wilson.  The focus in DC public always seems to be on ensuring that urban youth get to college, with any college being as good as any other in the eyes of educators.

Maybe Basis will alter the equation, or even DCI, but I find this hard to imagine in a system with a long history of sugar coating challenge issues like mad to advance the careers of politicians.  If a state funds G/T education for the top 5% of kids, like VA and MD do, kids get the early push they need to get into top colleges later.  Some states only fund G/T education for the top 1%, to save money.

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