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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think are any genuine public feeder schools in the DMV to particular selective colleges. There's no Boston Latin to Harvard kind of public school here for instance.

But the W schools tend to do very well. However, it'll be like 5 from Whitman to Yale one year, but zero the next year. But that same year they might get 5 to Duke and so on and so forth. So it's not a reliable conduit to any college in particular. But all the selective colleges are familiar with the W schools and those students tend to do very well with admissions.   [/quote]
There are also no private feeder schools in the DMV. All of what people are seeing is selection based on likelihood of admission based on other hooks (e.g., legacy/donor). Private HS know about these as they create their classes. As PP noted, this is also what you're seeing at Boston Latin in a different form (faculty kids). In both cases, there's an underlying variable driving both admissions that is not a school's "feeder" status.[/quote]

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