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Thanks for your comments, but I assure you that I don't need you to make me feel better about my kid's future prospects of success, either in college applications or in life. But I do remain confident that you really don't have sufficient information to assert that a small group in a class of 120 comprise "the top academic kids in the school." It doesn't hurt my feelings, it's just incredibly arrogant and uninformed about your child's classmates and their in-class academic accomplishments.

It's also scary that you think it's OK to stalk these kids and their achievements in this way, and that you think you are qualified to make public pronouncements about who the top academic kids are among a group of exceedingly smart teenagers.[/quote]

No stalking done, thanks for the assumptions. You make a lot of assumptions and protest far too much for someone who feels ok.

To be clear - I never said that the small group of top STEM kids are the only top academic kids. I posed a suggestion as an answer to another post as to why (as that person claimed) top STEM kids did not do well in ED (I personally have no idea whether that was the case).

I still assert that that top STEM group has a large concentration of academic high fliers who are very likely to be applying to a single uber-competitive school in the ED round.  It is not surprising that acceptance rate in that ED group will be lower than the rest of Sidwell ED.  But in the end, many kids applying to uber competitive schools from Sidwell from that group (and from outside of that group) will land at a very competitive school.  [/quote]

Maybe they weren't yours, but the original statements described this small group of kids as "the cream of the crop" (yuck) and "the top academic kids." That is far different from describing them as "among the top kids" which is what you seem to be asserting. If that's your view, then fine, I will even agree with you. So while I "feel OK," you are darn right that I am going to protest when someone arrogantly and ignorantly describes their kid's little group of STEM kids as comprising the "cream of the crop." That is not something that they can even possibly know, and it would in fact be rather stalker-ish if they did. Also, IMO, it is not a way to talk that is in keeping with Sidwell's culture and values. No assumptions being made here.[/quote]

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