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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wootton grads go to many places.

OP best to remember now, you kid goes to where they go to don't worry about anyone else.

That said Wootton has a great track to college.

Mine got into schools like UNC, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, UVA, Yale, UMD, Michigan (lots of Wootton kids), Stanford. We are a very math-oriented family and the Wootton cluster served us well.

Kids go to all kinds of colleges from Wootton. My next door neighbors kid went to McGill. On the other side of my house Towson and JMU.

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my son is a freshman at another close to DC high school that is discussed on this thread. He’s really bright and math/science oriented doing really well in honors and AP classes but he has a B in English. I keep hearing about kids getting into  the kinds of schools do you listed your son got into and I’m curiousDid they get straight A’s in every single class they took? What was their course load/track  in high school? What kinds of extracurricular activities that they do Out of courisity? thanks for any insight because when you look online it’s really confusing as to what kind of kid gets in where in these days, and if colleges look at weighted vs unweighted gpas
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As a parent of both private and public school kids now in college from MoCo, I have learned that the public and private school kids are not in the same college admissions pools, largely because many of the privates give lower grades, such as Bs and—gasp—even Cs on a regular basis. The mcps “w” high schools, however, are in the same pool. And in a more micro-level, colleges are looking within each school to assess where students fall—top 10%, 25%, 50%, etc. [/quote]

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