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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Latin does not have a very impressive list of college acceptances either. No idea of basis and DCI is too new. [/quote]

Here is the link: http://latinpcs.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/WLPCS-College-Acceptances-2015.pdf[/quote]

As an upper middle class parent, I also think this list of colleges is unimpressive.  There are only 8 colleges on that list that I would be ok (not thrilled) with for my children.  However, this list of colleges is probably more than acceptable for children raised in poverty, or are first generation college students.[/quote]

So Brown you'd be merely be ok with but "not thrilled" about?  Northwestern?  Cornell?  UCLA?  Maybe so, but just asking whether you saw these schools on the list--there are some very good schools here.[/quote]

Latin only got one kid into Brown, and that was three years ago.  Almost any halfway decent public high school can launch one or two Ivy League careers at some point in history.  Latin steers most kids to small, 2nd tier liberal arts colleges.  No judgement, but that's what they do. If Ivy League and "Little Ivy" (Middlebury, Bowdoin, Amherst, Williams etc.) admissions matter to you, and you want your kids in public school, I'd shoot for the MoCo test-in middle and high school magnets, or Arlington or Fairfax GT.

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