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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is... Assuming the Yale admit didn’t also get into 50% of the others too (which, of course, s/he likely would if s/he applied, so it’s really a question of how many s/he applied to)...[/quote]

Latin parent here.  That list was taken from a weekly communication from the head of school to parents and families.  The intention is clearly to highlight the achievements of an accomplished senior class and not just one kid.  Latin is a close-knit community.  The seniors and their parents (and lots of the juniors too) know who the Yale admit is and would recognize if half the list was the acceptances of that one kid.  [/quote]

Good to hear. I definitely wasn't trying to bash Latin. I just always worry about acceptance rather than attendance lists, since I know lots of high schools (including the one I went to) milk the stats of their top 2-3 performers to imply the overall class did better than it did.[/quote]

Last years class is attending Dartmouth, Cornell, Davidson, Stanford, Univ of Chicago, Oberlin, Carleton, Haverford, Pomona, Middlebury....

Latin does a great job of getting all kids that want to go into college.  As a charter school where admittance is lottery based, kids truly do come from all wards of the city, with diverse socio economic backgrounds.  Some kids make tough choices of going to a prestigious school with little financial aid or a school that they can graduate from with little debt.  For some Latin kids they will be the first of their families to attend college.  I don't think the lists of a few schools tell the full story.   [/quote]

If all of those schools have kids from last year's class actually attending... that is incredibly impressive.[/quote]

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