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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, my oldest child is a 1st grader in the Edison pyramid and I totally understand get you. We love our house, our neighborhood and our relatively easy commutes. We are fine with our elementary school but unsure about Edison. We are wondering if we should stay or move.

DH and I think actually think it would be easier for our children to gain acceptance into top schools from Edison even if there aren't a lot who go each year. I don't care about others who get in. We only care about our kids. If our kids rank top 1% and get in, we will be happy to set a precedent.

For the record, I asked a very similar question a yr or so ago about Edison's college acceptances and never got an answer. If I remember correctly, a few people answered and said they knew of a family who had kids who did well. I think the poster stated Stanford and UVA but can't recall.[/quote]
Edison has had one National Merit Semifinalist in the past three years combined, so statistically the odds of your kid attending that school and ending up in the top 1% aren't great. You might not be setting a precedent, but you would be beating the odds.

Now if you want to talk about the top 5% or 10%, you might be on more solid ground.[/quote]

I meant that if our child was ranked top 1% or top 20 at Edison, we think it may be easier to gain acceptance into a top university than say ranking top 10-15% at a more competitive school like Langley. We will most likely move or go private before our young children get to high school. I am more interested in my children having a good peer group and working up to their potential than playing a numbers game to get into a better university. I want to give our kids the best education we can and I'm not sure the Edison pyramid will do that. [/quote]
That might hold for some state schools that seek broad representation, but most top universities aren't going to admit students from Edison unless they are top candidates in their own right.  If there are three great candidates from Langley, who have been in a strong peer group for years, and none from Edison, those schools may admit multiple Langley students and none from Edison.  [/quote]

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