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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The cost is worth it in MS or HS, not elementary school. [/b] We went from public JKLM to private MS.[/quote]

[b]True, but you can't expect to go from JKLM to private in one jump at MS[/b].  Maybe an independent that isn't "Big 3" or parochial but there's just nothing to make even a great kid stand out.  They're almost better off coming from EOTP with anything that gives the admissions committee a reason for a second look.[/quote]

Huh? Dozens of kids do this every year...[/quote]

Not Big 3 they don't.  Read the link upthread.[/quote]

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/709133.page

"applying to private school from DCPS isn't easy; my advice: if you want to move, do it early on"[/quote]

Yeah, and that was one person's view. I personally know at least 10 kids who have made the move to the "big 3" in the last 2 years. [/quote]

I thought it was a pretty interesting report.  Don't worry though, your child is totally on track.  It's only the other parents who are going crazy.  (By way of example, I have a friend in McLean who is a Harvard alum - undergrad and grad - who has her math wunderkind competing to get into the Big 3.  She is SO STRESSED.  Yet we all know the local privates care about this right?  Because John WILL get accepted to Harvard, and Sidwell, St. A, and GDS each want to make sure it's from their school...)[/quote]

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