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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s amazing all the mental gymnastics on display here from the Wilson parents explaining away the Wilson college admissions.[/quote]

And I'm still not clear on what the snarky crowd thinks is wrong with Wilson admissions that should have all Wilson parents freaking out. A year without any top Ivies isn't a shock for a public high school that loses most of its best students to the nearby public application high school. Is it your position that there are exceptional students at Wilson who aren't getting in to HYPS-MIT and that it's the school's fault? Or that there are very good students ending up at not-very-good schools because they're getting bad advice at Wilson?[/quote]

And saying that most of the best upper NW students end up at Walls just further trashes Wilson students.  You're an asshole.[/quote]

OK, switch "most" to "a portion of" if the former is offensive to you. I still think the list the PP put up is not cause for panic. And I noticed you didn't answer my question about what you think is wrong with that list.[/quote]

DP:  As a parent with kids in a Wilson feeder elementary, I worry that Wilson kids of all academic levels are not able to access to best opportunities available to them.

It is very difficult to get any view as to how a HS does getting typical students into college.  It is much easier to see if any kids are getting into the most competitive colleges.  That statistic therefore serves as an imperfect proxy for assessing the overall performance of Wilson outplacement.

If Wilson lags MoCo schools or others, I don’t know what the cause is.  Are there no highly competitive students at Wilson?  (I doubt that’s the answer.)  Does Wilson have a bad rep with colleges?  Is the college counseling subpar?  Is Honors for All an obstacle?  Or is the overall education provided actually subpar?

I want my children to get a great education, and I want them to have great college opportunities that meet whatever their desires are at that time.

I don’t want to send my kids to Wilson if it will handicap them.  So that’s why this discussion interests me.[/quote]

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