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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's just far from Takoma (and Blair) and pulls from neighborhoods with high SES so there tend to be a lot of highly-motivated, HGC- or magnet-qualified kids who choose not to go. 
I'm sure there are those for whom Pyle would not be a good fit, but IMHO I think those students are really really really exceptional. i.e. genius-level rather than just very very bright and "highly gifted."

My niece decided not to continue from an HGC to Takoma/Blair a few years ago and go to Pyle and Whitman instead. It was a great decision for her as she had a lot of extracurriculars she wanted to be involved in and didn't want to spend two hours on bus each day. She had no problem finding a peer-group of equally smart and motivated kids at Pyle/Whitman but maybe if she was in a school in a neighborhood closer to Takoma/Blair she wouldn't have been so lucky.

She is at a Harvard-Princeton-Yale Ivy (don't want to say the school as you could probably identify her).[/quote]

Thanks...that's our hope for our kid.  We hear good things about Whitman.  Like any school, the peer group your kid falls in with is important, but ours has really bonded with HGC friends, so we are hoping that they will continue to push and encourage each other in HS.  We had heard from Whitman grads that college was in some respects *easier* than Whitman was, so I don't fear that it will be too easy.  And anyway, I went to a large public school myself and while it was no huge challenge academically, I had time to try lots of ECs and in the end got into a top ivy...if that is the kind of thing people want to focus on.  Our kid didn't want the commute, and probably won't want it in HS either, so no point in looking back.[/quote]

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