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[quote=Anonymous]NP here. I don't think there is anything wrong with reviewing the college placements of any high school (public or private) as one data point to measure rigor or success at education the respective school's student body. Private school, especially in the DMV, can be very expensive, and it is a huge investment and sacrifice for many families. Posters brushing that off seem to defensive ("well we don't care about college placements, we just want Larlo to be happy" etc). That's fine, I want all kids to be happy, but that there is zero wrong with another family wanting to know how college placements are.

We are a current and long time SSSAS family. We are happy with my our oldest's college placement, but it wasn't because of the college placement office that they got into their first choice. We were not very impressed and felt our personal counselor had zero enthusiasm for our oldest so we took advice from another family with older kids and basically lead the entire process ourselves (which honestly might be what all families should do regardless of school). There is too much emphasis on college placement of the athletes (which the counselors have nothing to do with) and it will be interesting to see in the future what happens when the long serving and well connected lacrosse coach retires (no shade to her, she's very well connected and helpful to those players). [/quote]

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