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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You mean, what do most high SES families EOTP do when they don't get into DEAL, BASIS or Latin.

Move. [/quote]

Seems like the obvious answer, but I personally haven't known anyone in this situation.  The people I've known who moved for middle school hadn't bothered to apply or left a few years before.  Many of them already had one foot out the door so to speak.  [/quote]

I live in CCDC near Metro and have for a long time.  One thing I've noticed only recently, say in the past five years, is that when a big, expensive home goes on the market, it is purchased by a family moving form the Hill.  Always the Hill.   Presumably they are pumping their equity from the sale of their not-inexpensive rowhome on the Hill into the house here in Ward 3, so kids can attend Deal/Wilson.

In years past, the families that bought these homes were families whose kids already attend private schools like GDS, or, families with preschoolers.  Those people do still buy around me, but the new development is families with 10 year olds who then go to Murch.    It's not just conjecture -- they put the bumper sticker on the car right away.[/quote]

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