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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where these HS stand with US News has absolutely no bearing on kids getting into college.  Colleges just look at the course rigor and student performance.

In fact, coming from a competitive HS can hurt kids as they stand out less among their classmates.   
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"colleges just look at the course rigor"?  
You seriously believe that a college admissions board, with thousands of candidates every year, will look up each candidate HS "course rigor?"  lol.

"coming from a competitive HS can hurt kids"?
Everyone knows TJ (even a college admissions board).  Besides, you just contradicted yourself?  You just said "course rigor" mattered, but now you're arguing that it hurts kids?

It's pretty clear you're making stuff up.[/quote]

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Some misinformation being posted here...

Top colleges have admissions committees composed of something like 40 regional admissions officers who are responsible for understanding their region's socioeconomic context and individual school context. If your kid goes to Phillips Andover or Exeter you might get a white-glove process but the reality is one person likely supervises all of MD, DC (including St. Albans, Sidwell, GDS, etc.), and VA. This person's recommendation is what the full committee votes on and they tend to be highly deferential to regional officers' recommendations.

Guess which schools the officer is going to be most familiar with? The expensive DC private schools which have a regular pipeline of admitted students every year. These schools' counselors have built 10-year relationships with Ivy adcoms and they put real care into each student's college recommendation. At RM IB you've got 10 counselors writing 400 recommendations every year for kids they've never met before. Whitman is consistently ranked highly because their counselors understand the process and there are a lot of Ivy alums who live in Bethesda whose kids understand the process. [/quote]

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