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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at Deal and we’re about to pay $$ for a big3 school instead of Wilson.  However, this week is DCPS spring break and many people I know are taking their kids around to accepted schools to make their college decisions.  These kids from Wilson were accepted at Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, Michigan, UCLA, NYU, Vassar, Pomona, Cornell, Brown, Oberlin and Swarthmore.  Typical smart white kids.   Nothing out of the ordinary.  [b]And this is just the handful of kids I know from my block and/or siblings of kids from our DCPS elementary. [/b]  So why am I paying for private next year again?   I’ve found Deal to be uneven at best but it doesn’t seem to make one bit of difference (if college admission is the end game). [/quote]

This is why. Wilson is a huge school, and your sample size is teeny tiny.

I send my kids to a big-3 school because I want them to be surrounded by a peer group whose families care a lot about educational excellence. I don't want them to cruise through school, getting high marks and never writing an essay longer than 5 pages. I want them to be in classes that are small enough so that they won't easily fall through the cracks. I appreciate that teachers have curricular freedom not to teach to a test or to design tests meant for large classes. I like that the kids' school is small enough that they can't segregate into "Yale or Jail" cohorts. I like having teachers and an administration that responds to my inquiries quickly and sincerely. I consider required athletic participation a good life-skill. I believe--though there are no guarantees--that my kids will get into a decent college, but that is not the primary reason we send our kids to strong independent school.[/quote]

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