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[quote=Anonymous]The pressures around college & acceptance at a lot of the "top" DC-area high schools has been this intense at least since I went to one 25 years ago.  95+ percent of my class went to 4 year colleges.  Only a percentage of any class get into the super elite top tier - but most get into very good schools, get great educations and establish great contacts for their careers and grad school opportunities.  I spent all of  my high school years being super anxious and doing everything I was supposed to go - and getting into an Ivy (albeit a 'second tier Ivy' - yes there are differences) - but wish still I had gone to a smaller liberal arts school instead, which would've been a better match for my social temperament.  There are tons of great schools - my advice having lived through it & seen all my friends and family from here live through it & have lives beyond is to find a set of schools that match what your kids likes (a couple 'reach' schools, a couple 'on par' and a couple 'safeties') and it will all work out.  There was much less control, rhyme or reason or 'fairness' to where kids ended up getting in than you would think anyway.[/quote]

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