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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you’re a well resourced UMC white family with no hooks, your kid will do better on a per capita basis coming out of a DC public/charter school than one of the brand-name DC privates. At the privates, your kid is “competing” for college slots with kids whose families are legit very wealthy or connected.

Your kid has a better shot coming out of JR or Walls all things equal.

That said, the network your child develops at an elite private school may serve them better in their career. [/quote]

Demonstrably untrue. Year after year the Wilson JR and Basis & Walls parents / parents-to-be post this on DCUM. And year after year, the official matriculation lists and now IG/youtube compilations prove that it’s bullshit. Yes, even when comparing apples::apples.   Say a white, non-legacy, non-crew  kid living in a SFH near Murch or Mt Pleasant or the Hill whose parents are a lawyer and a policy analyst with graduate degrees. [/quote]

The IG/youtube compilations are silly sources.  My kid did graduate JR and is now at an Ivy and never would have considered posting to IG…as well as three of my kid’s friends also at an Ivy.

I have never seen “official” matriculation lists for schools that indicate the number of kids matriculating at what school…only Bullis publishes this list in the DMV area.

You may be correct (or not)…but your sources are not definitive by any stretch.[/quote]

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