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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But BTW, it actually appears that GDS [i]does[/i] compete in the AMC contests on a regular basis, since a handful of GDS students won recognition from AMC in each of the past six years. [/quote]

Not really a conclusion you can draw from the data -- individuals can sign up and provide school affiliations.  So you don't know if a 0 means no participation vs. participation but no recognition.  And that's a crucial distinction if you want to compare/rank schools.  [/quote]

The zero means nobody with honors.  All these schools participate in the AMC sequence.  If you look, you can see that the numbers of honored kids are small (compared to TJ, Blair, Exeter, for example), and relatively even across the DC privates; probably not a significant difference across many years.  GDS right now has some really top kids, as evidenced by 2010 data.  A few years ago it was Sidwell that shined more, and St. Albans often is right there.  What I can tell you is that currently there is a lot of excitement, relatively, at GDS about the math team, participation in lots of meets (Princeton, Duke, Harvard, as well as the local area meets, in which lots of kids participate and in which the school has really done incredibly well - for example, first at Princeton last year in the B division).  In contrast, right now Sidwell seems pretty "meh" about all this, and doesn't field a team except for the local private school meets.  You don't have to care about math and this may not be important in your choice of school - many don't - but if this is important to your US child, it is safe to say there is a difference right now (as well as nationally ranked debaters, as someone else noted).  [/quote]

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