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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why the push for high school classes in 7th grade? Do you have an end goal in mind? [/quote]
People move to Virginia for UVA. The price + prestige combination seems unbeatable to them. Then they discover that getting into UVA from FCPS is a developmentally-inappropriate arms race which at this point requires students to run a [i]six-year marathon in a pressure cooker[/i]. Faced with the choice of their child attending a lower-ranked Virginia state school, or paying for a similarly-ranked private or OOS school, parents instead decide to put more and more pressure on their kids. The end goal is UVA, but it’s also about justifying the parents’ choices about where and how to invest in real estate and raise their children. [/quote]

That’s ridiculous. VA has better colleges top to bottom. UMD is fine as a near (one notch down) peer to UVA, but actually the real value in VA is having VT, JMU, and W&M for the kids that don’t make UVA. [/quote]

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