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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whitman parent here.  Wish my kid had taken a full boat of AP classes each semester starting freshman year.   DD is now a junior and we will be lucky if she can even get into a place like Georgetown because she does not have a rigorous course load the first two years of at least 4 AP classes per semester.  Don't make my mistake, folks.  I'm disgusted with myself (and don't get me started on her - separate thread).[/quote]

I was told by someone well connected to the Georgetown interviewing process that local public school kids rarely make it in, but it is due more to "poise" issues and writing skills. Most of the local kids accepted at Georgetown are from the top tier Catholic schools (Gonzaga, Georgetown Prep, Visitation, Stone Ridge plus other good Catholic schools). I have never heard that taking AP classes freshman year is a "must." In fact, many of the top privates DO NOT offer APs because they think they needlessly cause stress and are too surface-level (not deep enough).  FWIW, I have one kid in MCPS and one kid in private, and I'm a Georgetown grad, so I have an interest in this! [/quote]

"Poise" issues? Would you mind clarifying? Honestly this seems a little odd.

My kid got into an Ivy from MCPS, a great ivy but I still have another kid to go....[/quote]

NP. The way people usually use it on DCUM, "poised" seems to mean "knowing how to act affluent and privileged". So I wouldn't expect the typical graduate of Whitman or Churchill to have a problem with poise.[/quote]

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