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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one has data because the schools don't want you to know this.

-But talk to any parent of a senior this year or last. 
-Talk to a NW DC college admissions counselor. 
-Look at the schools' student-run Instagram pages from last year and this year (not prefect but give trends)

Listen, we're not making this up for kicks and thrills or to start drama for fun. Pretty much no one is getting in who isn't a minority or an athlete or a big donor's kid. 
OR feel free to keep paying the $55K per year and keep your head in the sand until your kid's senior year and you see this play out with your own kid.  That's honestly probably the best approach.

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Nobody is arguing with you that T20 admissions for unhooked kids from the big 3 are almost nonexistent. [b]We are arguing that DCPS does not have some secret sauce for unhooked kids.[/b] URM and athletics (the most obvious hooks) are not the only hooks getting some DCPS kids in. There is no way for parents to collect this data. It is all rumor and anecdata.[/quote]

I don't think anyone is arguing that DCPS does much better.  If you're white, not a recruited athlete and not a legacy from Jackson Reed you aren't getting into an Ivy either regardless of your grades and resume  (with a tiny percentage of kids slipping through--but honestly this is the same at the Big3--a tiny number of unhooked kids get through).   Walls seems to be a weird outlier.  I don't know as much about MCPS, etc but I've heard it's similar this year. 
This isn't a private vs. public debate but a shift in how colleges see this demographic of kids from this entire DMV region.  It's not something the private schools can change.

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Do tell us where you got this amazing insight from.[/quote]

Uh, I have a senior at Jackson Reed and I have friends and he has friends and we're connected in the community.  [/quote]

So anecdotes. Got it. Useless.[/quote]

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