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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, not much love for Visi on here.  I've had one kid at Visi, one at a diocesan Catholic school, and one at a Fairfax County Public school. All of the schools have their strengths, but if I had another girl, and could afford it, I'd want her to to Visi. My DD's freshman English writing was on as high a level as many colleges.  I know.  I teach graduate school and spend an inordinate amount of time on correcting writing. The academics at Visi are solid.  The girls love, love, love the school and many of them stay there well past quitting time, even when they don't have extra-curricular activities.  The girls are really tight. Others might call that "cliqueishness," but there is a very strong sense of identity there.
As for legacies, there are a few, but often the legacies are not slackers, but the strongest students.  Visi also stives to admit students from the less well-off Catholic schools in the 
District.  If any students are not as well prepared, it might be this population.  That said, the school takes care of its students and these girls emerge just fine.
Visi is very selective and this seems to be the source of much resentment.  That's unfortunate.  
To sum it up, I do not know much about the other girls' schools, but the women I know who have graduated from Visi walk out with an excellent education and a well-formed 
character.  Those putting the school down on here seem to have some dull ax to grind.  [/quote]

I don't have a dull ax.  My comments had to do with our experience with the academics at Visitation.  My comments were limited to 9th grade since we left after that year and I stated that fact.  I didn't talk about the culture, the girls or the parents.  Academically, 9th grade was weak.  The strongest subject was English but the Math and Science was very weak.  The administration thought Math and Science were strong.  The school's definition of strong academics was not ours so we parted company before investing more time in the school.

It was the easy placement of Visitation as the leading Catholic academic school for girls that triggered my post.[/quote]

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