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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son attended one of the private schools in DC few years ago, now he is at u Chicago and he said the courses are more manageable than his high school and not that bad and he goes a lot to downtown Chicago on weekends for fun and some sport events.
Great city !!
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yes, Chicago is generally easier than high school for kids after Sidwell or NCS/STA.  These high schools are sweatshops (and I'm not saying this is a good thing--as a parent I think it's overkill)[/quote]

What a crock of absolute malarkey.  The average graduate of Sidwell or NCS/STA isn't even going to be accepted by Chicago, and the average test scores at the Chicago are much higher than the average scores at these high schools.  If they're "so hard," all that means is that the students are being loaded down with busy work, not academically challenging work that the typical Chicago student couldn't knock out of the park.[/quote]

Why the protective butt hurt? Your vocab, metaphors and syntax tells us you're not Gen Z -- so you're an older Chicago graduate from ... a public high school?  A non-elite private high school? Why so cantankerous?

Every year Sidwell sends 7-10 kids to UChicago, including this class of 2022.  Sidwell doesn't post "average test scores" of its students so you're just making up data today.  That said, the couple of kids I know personally from Sidwell '22 exceed these metrics of current Chicago freshman: https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/class-2025-profile

I hope your day gets better.  [/quote]

You sound like Kelly Ann Conway on the talk shows dodging and weaving to avoid answering the actual question asked.

No one said that there aren't students from Sidwell with SAT scores exceeding Chicago's metrics.  What was said was that on [i]average[/i] Chicago's scores are higher.  And that's an absolute fact.

The average SAT score at Chicago is a 1530, which is higher than TJ -- whose average SAT score is the highest in the region.  If you think Sidwell and NCS/STA has higher average SAT scores than TJ's you're delusional.

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