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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think St Albans prioritizes boys from private elementary schools - I think STA is looking for boys who will stay through graduation and families who are committed to private school early demonstrate they value paying all that money for the private school experience. Further, STA knows the curriculum, teachers and culture of these places.  Wouldn’t you listen to the opinion of someone you know first-hand than someone you don’t know?  Same with coming from Beauvoir.  They really know those kids because they came from the Close.

But don’t take that to mean that these boys are not deserving.  They often are great students who achieve a lot of success at STA.  Another poster mentioned that they like certain public schools more than others and this is in the same vein.  They have seen students succeed and add to the community from these schools so they too seem like a known quantities.

Bottom line, there are many more qualified boys than slots.  There are deserving boys who are not offered admission, certainly.  I am glad there are so many private schools in the area and hopefully one of those other phenomenal choices worked out for your kid.[/quote]

We of course they prioritize boys from private schools, esp BVR. That’s called a hook. Schools those kids fit the mold because the ones who don’t have already been counseled out (lovely phrase) and the parents have money and one or two of the other hooks. That’s what they build a class on. That’s the business model.

Get you kid into a k-8 early when merit does not count and they’ll get that private school bump. A k-12 (and BVR+NCS/STA counts) is even better; they can coast through US. [/quote]

STA would usu admit a small number of DCPS students from Eaton ES and Deal Jr High back in the day for Forms I-IV. But that was 30 years ago in the 90s. Form III admits were around seven or eight students total from a mix of public and private schools. [/quote]

That is still the case. 14 years ago and 4 years ago

What has changed from 30 years ago is Tuition and   the  declining ability of MC parents to afford 4- 9  years of Private MS/ HS that enables that move from DC Public.

30 years ago STA was about 20K or so a year, now its above 50K a year.

At the same time, Ward 1 home prices are now above 1 million so that requires join income of about 250K plus- just the group that WON"T be Getting FA

Hence, the Big Privates increasingly are taking solely the kids of Big Law and the Suburban rich about the smart, but MC DC kids[/quote]

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