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[quote=Anonymous]I really think that the academic experience at both schools in terms of rigor etc is going to be incredibly similar.  The PP who said "NCS definitely stronger academically" is living in the 1970s or 80s I think, looking at % NMSFs etc, very similar.

GDS has really nurtured some incredible math students over the past 5 years, including two who placed really high in international math competitions, one of those was a girl, both left GDS after junior year for MIT because they simply were ready and were such prodigies that they ran out of classes at GDS.  But girls really strong in math but not world class prodigies are very well supported in math at GDS as well, some really excellent upper school math teachers, and a great math team environment and coach. I think almost half of the kids on the team are girls.

I really think you should leave this up to your kid, if they are in MS or HS. The cultures/feeling/social environment are pretty different at the two schools, beyond the obvious coed vs all girl.  If LS this is very early to be worrying about these issues and should just choose where you and your DD feel comfortable now, there is a reasonable amount of movement between the top independent schools for HS, if a really good student at one of these schools, in our experience moving was easy (one of my kids did move from one "big 3" to another another for HS)[/quote]

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