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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not our experience.  Our daughter (headed to med school this fall) did very well at a top college, graduating cum laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  So did her peers.

My husband, a physician, went to Wheaton High in the 70's, then to Ivies (for both college & med school).

If you don't have a child in the red zone, you don't know what you are talking about.[/quote]

Your daughter sounds like an outlier, and your husband's experience at Wheaton 30-35 years ago certainly doesn't say much about current conditions there.

Generally speaking, kids from Whitman, Churchill or Wootton will fare much better at an Ivy or another top university than a student from an Einstein, Kennedy or Wheaton.  It's not because the former are elitists, but instead because they've received a better education and are used to being surrounded by high-achievers who know they have to work hard to excel.  Top kids at Einstein or Kennedy haven't been in a similar environment, so it comes as more of a surprise to them [b]when they attend an academically challenging school and find themselves lagging behind their peers. [/b]

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This is just not so.  I have had kids at Einstein, as have our family and friends.  My daughter is not an outlier.  Her close friends from Einstein have all graduated from good colleges and most are on their way to grad or professional school, or exploring their various options.

You don't live here, you don't have kids here, you don't know what the hell you are talking about.  You assume that because you live in the W district, you just know better - that the default is Whitman (or whatever) and everything else well, just doesn't measure up.  And you "know" this based on nothing other than your own biases.

This says more about you than anything else.[/quote]
Hey, be gentle with 17:14. She has to convince herself that the Bethesda mortgage is worth it, and that she is not an elitist or worse. So, let her continue her delusions. After all, who wants to deal with people like that at PTA meetings? If I wanted to deal with families who have attitudes like that, I wouldn't have moved to Silver Spring.[/quote]

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