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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your goal is simply Ivy, then save your cash, send your kid to a regular high school where they can be the superstar of their class.[/quote]
You are way underestimating how hard it is to be "the superstar" at a public high school, especially in the DC area.[/quote]

Enroll in Jackson-Reed. It's not hard at all to get a 4.5 GPA and carve a nice extracurricular niche in time for college admissions. [/quote]

Then why are there only about 8 or 9 students going to Ivies from JR this year? Out of a class of over 500.

Grades must not be the most important factor…especially at a high school with rampant grade inflation and assignment retakes. [/quote]

[b]Jackson-Reed has far fewer students gunning for Ivies than the elite private schools. [/b]The quality of the student at J-R is also far more variable than an elite private, so the competition is easier. My point is that for a very accomplished student, the J-R applicant pool is much easier to stand out in. If you go to NCS, you will be competing with girls that have nationally-recognized researchers or writers, legacies, athletes, or VIP.

It's just so much easier for an academically-strong student to stand out at J-R than at NCS.[/quote]

Untrue. JR students are just less successful at Ivy admissions than their DC independent school counterparts. [/quote]

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