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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The ones I know from wilson got 700+ on the SATs and 4s and 5s on AP exams.[/quote]

I was a guidance counselor at a DCPS school for a few years before returning to a private.  My DC starts at Brent shortly.

Nobody's arguing that no DCPS kid EVER makes the grade.  The WaPo likes to publish a list of which area schools get kids into Harvard each year and the normal intake from DCPS, system-wide, is 1.  The intake just from TJ in a given year is half a dozen.  Also true of Sidwell and the Blair math-science magnet.  Stuyvesant HS in NYC, where 1/3 of the kids are FARMs, gets the most into Harvard of any school in the country year after year, around 40.  Of course NYC has a much bigger population than DC, but 40 from a single school there vs. 1 from all public schools here?

The Ivies, other than Cornell, now turn away at least 3/4 of applicants with at least one perfect SAT/800.  At least one third of applicants score 750+ on all sections, which you hardly ever see at Wilson, SWW, Banneker.

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