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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one has data because the schools don't want you to know this.

-But talk to any parent of a senior this year or last. 
-Talk to a NW DC college admissions counselor. 
-Look at the schools' student-run Instagram pages from last year and this year (not prefect but give trends)

Listen, we're not making this up for kicks and thrills or to start drama for fun. Pretty much no one is getting in who isn't a minority or an athlete or a big donor's kid. 
OR feel free to keep paying the $55K per year and keep your head in the sand until your kid's senior year and you see this play out with your own kid.  That's honestly probably the best approach.

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We keep paying the 55k per child each year for the education and experience. If my kids become interested in top colleges, cool. But that's certainly not why we're there. [/quote]

This. Why some people think that the quality of the last four years of education is more important than the quality of the previous 13 is beyond me. [/quote]

It’s because they think the only point of going to one school vs another is to get into a particular college. It’s a myopic, unintelligent way of looking at schooling.[/quote]

It’s not the only factor but you are entirely kidding yourself if you don’t think a vast majority of parents consider this as one of the key factors to want to spend this type of money in a region (at least MoCo and NOVA) with some of the top public school systems in the world. [/quote]

My kids' big3 has been open with parents for a decade that the college admissions landscape has been changing and that the AO is much less able to influence T20 admittance for unhooked kids. This message has been louder and more direct in the past few years. The last 2 years of the admission cycle has been brutal. I think most of us have accepted this, but, there are also a lot of parents in this crowd who basically think it is tragic if there kid does not get into a T20 school. It is hard for these folks to hear this message.[/quote]

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