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The other side of the coin is that these W schools are all pressure cookers. Your kid needs 15 APs to distinguish himself from the rest of the pack. He is competing for college spots with seriously high-achieving peers that have a support system of wealthy parents with internship connections, private tutors and possibly private college counselors. At BCC, there's a little more room to breathe... and fewer APs, and hardly any post-AP math classes. Maybe your kid won't need 15 APs to stand out. Maybe just 10-12.  It won't be impossible to be one of the top students, just very difficult. BCC is a little more socio-economically diverse than some of these other W schools (there are rent-controlled apartments in downtown Bethesda, which is otherwise pretty wealthy).

That's it in a nutshell. [/quote]

You're really overstating things. I haven't found WJ to be a pressure cooker. I've had two kids go through without feeling the need to compete by hiring tutors, and I've been happy with both their high school education and their college results.[/quote]

Well there are more than 3000 students now at WJ. So obviously there's going to be a range of individual experiences. But when comparing different high schools together, those are the differences that stand out. Some schools are more competitive than others.[/quote]

That's almost as big as Blair![/quote]

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