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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Honestly, [b]no school in any of the local counties is going to go out of their way to make sure your special snowflake gets into an Ivy school. Your child is going to have to do that all by themselves. 
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If you are asking if the school has some kind of connection at the Ivy that they can make sure you kid gets in the answers is almost positively going to be no. And it doesn't matter what is happening today because your kid won't be there for many years. You might get someone who is the schools college counselor who is in their first real job.

West Potomac has a terrible demographic with a very high FARMS and ESL rate. The schools first and foremost goal is to close the achievement gap, make sure those students are graduating, and getting as many as they can into college.

So, the short and easy answer - move now or plan to send your kid to private school.[/quote]

Parents should be required to post the above on their refrigerator.  This is so true.   Counselors at any of the high schools have a couple of hundred kids at least to "advise."  And a lot of them are just out of school themselves and setting up triage to make sure the kids who are struggling get priority.  If you want your child's hand held, you're going to have to pay for private school or a private counselor.  [/quote]

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