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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charlie Deacon, the dean at Georgetown is like 80 years old. He's got a lot of opinions. [QUOTE]Deacon: It began back in 1995 with the recentering of the SAT, which suddenly made many, many more people have high scores. In the year of recentering, Georgetown went from having 95 students with a 750 verbal score in our applicant pool to more than 1,000. Suddenly, the Lake Wobegon effect was 1,000 [b]people felt themselves more qualified than they used to be[/b]. Today our applicant pool has more than 3,000 kids with equivalent scores.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE][b]The problem in Northern Virginia is Thomas Jefferson[/b], the science-and-technology magnet school. [b]Jefferson robs all the local schools of their best students[/b], leaving behind a culture that’s more dominated by athletics and rock music and less dominated by APs and high academic achievement. It’s great for the kids who get to Jefferson, but it leaves behind a lot of schools where the top of the class is a lot thinner. [b]So we don’t see a lot of great candidates from Northern Virginia [/b]high schools other than Jefferson. Even those that rank high in the class don’t look great to us. [b]We see much stronger candidates from Montgomery County[/b] schools than from Fairfax.[/QUOTE] [/quote] Bullsh@t[/quote] NoVA is ENORMOUS. TJ is a teeny, tiny fragment in all those big NoVA counties/HS. He’s living 30 years ago before the population explosion. TJ used to be incredibly selective 30 years ago —and tough as nails school. Their holistic admissions and not telling kids they made Ntl Merit finalists, etc is TJ today. Most kids choose to stay at their own IB HSs, competitive NOVA HS where many get into Ivies.[/quote] These public school kids with their rock n roll music! Get off my lawn![/quote] 😂😂😂[/quote]
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