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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The list is fine. No public school is going to have the outcomes of an elite private filled exclusively with hand-picked kids and the ability to tell any troublemakers to move on.

My takeaway? These kids are applying to a lot of schools!

Having sent my kid to one of those schools, I can tell you that the education was good, but nothing you do is going to change the fact that most kids aren’t all that elite anywhere.[/quote]

I definitely was surprised to see that the kids from the HS in Bethesda Magazine list apply to a large variety of schools across the country in large numbers. This is less true of the Arlington schools. Some of that can be explained by the strong in-state options in VA, but it’s still a bit surprising given how much wealth there is in Arlington. [/quote]

That's true for all NoVA schools (minus TJ). The admissions to top 15 schools is pathetic compared to other areas of the country. 
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I actually wasn't focusing on where they were admitted, but where they applied.  Plenty of the kids on the Bethesda list did not get into the schools they applied to in California, the midwest, NE, etc., but they applied broadly in geographic terms and in relatively large numbers.  They seem to want to either explore the country or flee from this area in greater numbers.  [/quote]

Wow, I guess MCPS isn't so bad after all.[/quote]

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