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[quote=Anonymous][quote][b]The typical TJ/Blair student probably wouldn't get in to STA or Sidwell (or GDS or Holton or Potomac or NCS) - there just isn't room for them.[/b] Most parents at the $40k private schools aren't as eager to drive their children into math/science as the typical middle-class family so the STEM magnets are just not very attractive to them. A lot of upper middle class parents in Washington have professions in law, politics, diplomacy, and policy so its not surprising that their children also disproportionately pursue those areas of study. To these parents, tuition buys small class sizes that foster better class discussions and much higher expectations for reading and writing than any of the publics can afford.[/quote]

If this is the case, given their uniformly &gt; 98 percentile SSAT scores, then we can all agree it's not because of their scores, grades and brains, rather their lack of compatible pedigree and phenotype!!

Recall GW Bush and his automatic Phillips Andover admission.[/quote]

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