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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assuming my DS will not get into any privates just because it’s almost impossible right now, we are turning to our inbounds HS, Whitman. I hear only great things. My DS is a very good student with some LD, great athlete who will no doubt make the team of his sport and may even play varsity freshman year. He’s super quiet. How will he do at Whitman? He’s never been in such a huge school. His current school is tiny. But he’s looking forward to HS. [/quote]
Whitman is better than any private school in the area[/quote]

Then why do so many families in the Whitman sending area send their kids to private schools at significant expense?

Are these people dumb?

In our Potomac neighborhood we see Landon, Prep, Gonzaga, Bullis, St Albans, Holton, etc. jackets and sweatshirts in abundance. And some Whitman ones, too.[/quote]
Vanity.[/quote]

If by "vanity" you mean a realization that Whitman has been trading on its reputation from 25 years ago for a while now, i[b]ts recent acceptance results for top colleges have been pedestrian[/b] and no longer are even the best among MCPS high schools, and that MCPS is such a train wreck now that it's only going to get worse in years to come, then I agree 100%.

Look, Whitman is a good school. But it's not the best-in-class public school that it once was. To seriously wonder why families would choose to send their kids to some of the best private schools in the DMV over Whitman means you're either in denial and want to make yourself feel better about your personal decision, or you have no ability or desire to understand why it's not for everyone. [/quote]
[b]But it's still better than any private school acceptance results in the DMV[/b]. [/quote]

PP - Where can I find data that shows this? We're trying to figure out the private vs. public question and trying to piece together college acceptance results seems impossible.[/quote]

Bethesda Magazine posts all the destinations of all the Bethesda area schools, and you can compare them to the college acceptances as outlined on the private school websites (if they have them).

[b]I did this one year and while it looked like 10-15 kids from Whitman were going to the Ivies + MIT & Stanford, there were similar numbers going from the privates like GDS and Sidwell[/b]. But those private schools as you know, have a far smaller student body, so statistically, they were sending more kids to those colleges than the publics. Hope that helps.[/quote]
LOL
And where did you get the Sidwell list so you could compare?[/quote]

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