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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From last year's class of nearly 50, there were 4 to Sidwell, 4 to GDS, 4 to Potomac, 5-6 to Madiera, plus 1-2 each at STA, NCS, Maret, etc. plus a few to publics by choice and boarding schools. [/quote]

Those numbers for private admissions sound plausible, but they also mean that more than half of the (little) Langley students did NOT end up at a top-ranked private.  If one then subtracts the “sibling preference” and “legacy” admits from little Langley into the top privates, then it also means that a high achieving student without hooks might well not get into a local academically challenging private.[/quote]

Poster here just to clarify - I don't know the whole make up and numbers for the class but there is a good spread to other schools that you may not think are an acceptable destination who attract kids for many different reasons and the families are really happy. I didn't list Gonzaga, Visi, Stone Ridge, SASS, Landon, Holton, Flint Hill, Bullis, but each had 1-4 kids there. The class probably (totally a guess) breaks down 80% local privates, 10% boarding including Episcopal, and 10% public. And there were a few siblings last year but it was a lower year for kids following older kids to the same school.[/quote]

For the k-8's, you somewhat have to consider % of students in the incoming freshman class from any one school won't generally exceed 15% or so. So if Potomac takes roughly 25 new kids in 9th, 3-5 Langley kids max will be offered spots. Schools like Langley, Norwood, Sheridan, Congressional, etc. generally each make up roughly 10% of incoming freshman classes at the competitive privates. Good news is that not everyone from a k-8 wants a super competitive school. The k-8s do a great job of helping kids find the right fit and admissions seems to work out for the majority of kids.

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