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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ratings don't matter per se but they reflect something 'real' and that 'real' thing does matter -- if perhaps only because kids surrounded by high performers will be nudged to perform well. (And also because high performing schools have a lot of AP/IB offerings.)

But the impact on college admissions is almost the opposite of what OP is suggesting.  AOs compare kids with the other kids in their same school.  It's easier to stand out at a lower performing school.  There's a bias *against* taking kids from high performing schools because universities don't want to stack their class with a bunch of kids from the same school.  Spend some time on the universities forum here and you'll see all kinds of lamenting about how hard it is for W school kids to get admitted to UMD, for instance.  [/quote]

+1.

Since they are moving all of Wootton, these kids will still be surrounded by high performers and there will be a rich offering of AP classes. Ratings do matter when they are exceptionally low because it means the high performers are isolated. This will not be the case here.[/quote]

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