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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Plenty of "good" public and private schools in DMV turn out their share of mediocre students.[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]Princeton interviewer here again.  Yes, DC privates do turn out their share of average kids.  I've interviewed a good many from Sidwell, Georgetown Day, St. Albans, NCS etc. who were out of their league, and some TJ and Blair magnet kids.  But the difference between them and the top DCPS kids is that they tend to know it; they consider Ivies long shots because they rub shoulders with more academic classmates, e.g. Siemens finalists and kids with perfect SAT scores.  The DCPS kids turn up at interviews convinced by adults that they're in the running mainly because they're the cream of the crop at public schools, even if their SAT scores are in the 600s (without being nationally ranked HS athletes), and they've only taken a handful of AP tests and scored 2s, 3s and 4s.

I see no evidence that attending a DC ES as good as one WotP, Brent, or a charter like Two Rivers, puts a kid at a disadvantage later, as long as parents with good reason to harbor Ivy League aspirations for their children are on the ball.  This means supplementing with museum visits, tutors (often just braniac parents themselves), music lessons, language immersion and Johns Hopkins CTY camps, or whatever.

And of course most DCPS parents could care less about the Ivy League, for their own reasons.  The problems seem to come later, 7th grade+, when the brightest and most disciplined DCPS, and now DC Charter, kids aren't pushed to the academic wall by a system content to see them test proficient on standardized tests, as educators focus on helping classmates unlikely to clear that bar.[/quote]
I like how you roll Princeton interviewer.  It's kind of a tough message to hear, but nonetheless one that needs to get out there.  Thank you for sharing.
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