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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HB Woodlawn, a public school in Arlington that you don’t test into, only has 100 seniors and more NMSF than any school in DC, public or private.  Interesting.  [/quote]

lol. cutoffs are different across the board. for example mechanically it is likely that TJ will have more than all DC combined. [/quote]

They're not that different.  This year DC is 225 and DC and MD are at 224.  Yes, slightly easier with that 1 point, but does not explain why one school will have 2 NMSFs while another will have 13.[/quote]

Obviously the reason is that DC-based schools like Sidwell, GDS, NCS and STA are sub-par institutions that have never and could never send even one student to a T20 college. [/quote]

Or more likely that Sidwell, GDS, NCS and STA are full of rich kids who are legacies who have hooks to get into T20 colleges despite having poorer academic performance than many of their public school peers.[/quote]

Nonsense. Not a secret that the main reason that so many DC students are admitted to T20 colleges (including the Ivy Plus subset) is that the city has unusually good private schools. Poorer academic performance doesn't explain why these kids may beat out public school peers. My own children went to one of the highest performing DCPS elementary schools EotP all the way up. They were somewhat challenged in math, but the ELA writing instruction on offer wasn't just weak, it was hopeless. By the upper grades, we were hiring writing tutors. We switched to parochial for middle school, and they were so far behind in writing that they struggled in English. A jurisdiction like DC without formal GT programs, or a law on GT education, can only do so much to prep students to compete with GDS, NCS, STA and others in college admission. BASIS certainly tries, but their crappy facilities, weak electives and largely inexperienced teachers drive out most of their student talent before HS. Walls has been hamstrung by affirmative action admissions in recent years. Latin doesn't aim high (but a few of its seniors do).  [/quote]

Uh, well Latin has more semifinalists per person than all of these private schools except the Cathedral School. Also, remind me, does Sidwell Friends have a bus it sends to Anacostia each day to pick up and drop off its students? [/quote]

This year, Latin had 3 and Sidwell and GDS has 4.

2 years ago Latin had 0.

3 years ago Latin had 0.

I doubt that Latin has dramatically improved in 2 years.  And it is laughable to say it is on par academically with the Big 3.

The Latin kids who are NMSF are just grinders who prepped a lot outside of school and would have tested well at any school.  And, no, none of them lives in Anacostia.[/quote]

So hard-working students get no respect from you. Got it. [/quote]

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