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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usually the ones who get in at ninth are very strong students. The ones coming from public or weaker privates may take a semester or two to adjust.[/quote]

From where (i.e. which schools) do the strong students come?[/quote]

In my experience they come from a total mix of publics and privates from across the entire DMV (from close-in schools and very far-flung places in MD and VA).  These schools really pick the best kids they can from all over. 
There doesn't seem to be any pattern and it varies by year. [/quote]

Why do the Deal posters say there are so many Deal kids at the top schools? Is it true?[/quote]

no, there are a few posters on here who make crap up about Deal's placement.  
I have a kid at a Big3 who came from Deal 2 years ago and was the only kid who came from Deal to his/er new high school.  A poster on here swore there were "4 Deal kids" in 9th grade at our school.  
Um, no.  We are at the school and have the accepted student list in front of us---with the sending middle schools on the list!  In my kids' Deal class there were 1-2 kids who matriculated at each of the top 5 privates.  The list is very small because the Big3/5 9th grade entering classes are very small.

I don't know how many kids actually applied from Deal.  The large Catholic high schools (SJC, Gonzaga) take many more from Deal because their classes are much larger. [/quote]

1-2 kids each to the top 5 privates is a lot in my book and really impressive. [/quote]

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