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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last years data but I assume they will publish again this year.
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/September-October-2017/College-Bound/index.php?cparticle=3&siarticle=2#artanc[/quote]

So by and large, the overall acceptance rates for competitive colleges for the Bethesda area HS are no better than the overall acceptance rates for those colleges.

Very telling. So an education from these schools, overall, confers a kid little to no advantage in college admissions.[/quote]

Why would it?

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NP. When we were trying to decide what high school pyramid in which to buy I got so many comments about how I should send my kids to a "W" school for college admissions purposes, basically the notion that you should send your kid to X school so that they have a better chance of getting into prestigious colleges. So I guess it's just interesting to me that there is really no evidence that going to "top" public school has any effect on your college admissions. [/quote]

The reason to go to the Bethesda schools is so your kids are with a similarly high performing cohort where their majority is going to a good college.

If you want them to aim for the most elite schools you want to put them in a magnet program in Mont Co. Or you want to go to western Maryland or the Eastern Shore where they’d (theoretically) be the only one in their school with eyes on that level of school.  [/quote]
So do you have any data that show UMC white kids get into better colleges when they have this high-performing cohort? I’ve seen data on this for lower SES kids but not UMC kids. I don’t know that this list suggests such an effect. [/quote]

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