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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't need data to tell me that go-getter high-achieving UMC kids at JR can keep up with the cream of the MoCo crop if they can draw on substantial family support/resources and get help from adults in the know on planning. You simply have to pay for outside prep, every year of HS. You need to be resourceful about seeking out challenge, starting in MS. When JR counselors tell you that your kid can't get into X AP class (common refrain), you don't take no for an answer. You find the prep/content as a family.

Relying on JR or any other DCPS HS for most inputs won't work at highly competitive colleges.
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How do you prep a high school kid on Spanish, advanced English, Math ... at a certain point, there's no "supplementing" that can feasibly take the place of an actually solid school.  Someone that deadset on highly competitive college should move if at all possible. [/quote]

Yet, there are JR kids who get into Ivies every year.  Same with Walls, BASIS and Latin.  JR has some great teachers. If your kid is bright and motivated enough and you can pay for tutors and enrichment camps, you can swing it.[/quote]

yeah, but in recent years the only JR Ivy admits are the crew kids and URMs (which is not to discredit them--they certainly deserve it).  But kids are really not getting into the Ivies from JR based on being the top academic kids or being "bright, motivated kids with tutors and enrichment". 
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It’s not just about Ivies. Many of us have kids who aren’t going to Ivies no matter how great the HS. But we still need them to be challenged and supported jn an environment that considers high performance a normal standard. [/quote]

Yes, I agree 100%.  But it bothers me when people say that you can just send your high achieving kid to JR and supplement a bit and they'll end up at an Ivy.  This simply hasn't been happening in the past 3 years.    [/quote]

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