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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did not go there and neither did my children.

The only thing I can discuss are women that I know IRL who went there - outside counsel, friends, colleagues. None of them are super successful. Just regular worker bees.[/quote]

How old are they? [b]Holton used to be a pretty unimpressive, not very rigorous school for righ girls who couldn’t get into harder schools like Sidwell or ncs.[/b] Or didn’t want to work hard enough to go there. Supposedly it has gotten harder.[/quote]

Exactly when are you talking about?  I'd like a year.  Because this trope that gets spread on DCUM does not match the class I graduated with over 30 years ago.
If you are talking about the 1950's then maybe.  But any time from the 80s onward this is not true at all.[/quote]

Eh, I think academically Holton is certainly capable of producing excellent students. The school, however, is considered second tier behind the cathedral schools. It's completely understandable why some families would choose Hilton over NCS, and there are plenty of girls that do so, but when considering academic rigor, Holton is a step lower. [/quote]

[b]What kind of real proof do you have to support this claim? [/quote][/b]
I'd love to know this proof too.

In reality, people seem to think that the schools that have DC addresses are the best simply because they have those zip codes.  
It's a bit reminiscent of the days when all the DC area accounting and law firms thought they needed a DC address.  Of course, now, many of those businesses have moved to VA.[/quote]

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