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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TL/DR: Feeder schools exist, but the only one in the DMV is Thomas Jefferson.

[My 2 cents: the claim that it’s cause and not effect is delusional. You can tell yourself that Andover et al have somehow combed through and selected the very brightest kids in America, but that’s just silly. Only someone very deep in the Ivy League/New England bubble would even try to argue that. The kids at those schools are bright, but they don’t even scratch the surface of the talent that’s out there.]

https://interactives.thecrimson.com/2024/news/feeders[/quote] No one is arguing that Andover et al have somehow combed through and selected the very brightest kids in America. If that was true every Andover et al kid would be admitted to all the Ivies. It is reasonable to assume that a school that selects some of the smartest highschoolers throughout the country would therefore send a disproportionate amount of these kids to top schools. That's more due to the selection effect than anything else.

It's not a coincidence that the schools which send the most are highschools that collect the best, most motivated students from a wide geographic area.[/quote]

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