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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Jackson-Reed has far fewer students gunning for Ivies than the elite private schools. 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]

Facts show top students percentage wise are less likely to go to an IVY or top 20 school than at top privates. Percentage wise they send a very very low number. They have 500 plus kids per grade. [b]Many kids with high GPAs.[/b] [/quote]

I think that's the thing--there is a very large number of kids with high grades as grades are based mostly on completion than any objection critique of the work. 
Also, many of the highest achievers leave DCPS for private school in 9th.  Not all but many.  I have 3 kids who were at Deal and each time I'd say that 90% of the smartest, most driven kids we know left for private and others for Walls.  [/quote]

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