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The kids I know from Wilson who went to Harvard and Yale were high SES kids living IB in ward 3.

Please don't continue to extrapolate from your experience only.  Apparently "your" ivy doesn't admit Wilson kids.  Other Ivies do[/quote]

I'm not the previous pp, but I interview for Princeton and my spouse interviews for MIT.

We've burned out on interviewing at Wilson, SWW and Banneker over the years because so few get in, although it's true that v. occasionally, 1 or 2 will.  It's more rewarding to interview in the burbs and at privates.   I've observed that the Wilson kids are generally the most competitive of the DCPS bunch, but their prep often seems inadequate, and they're not helped to compete in natl sci comps.  I find that DCPS parents spanning the socioeconomic spectrum tend to have inflated expectations of what their kids are getting out of all 3 schools - they've been known to call us in tears come April.  The differentiated learning approach pre AP only works so well.

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