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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If academic rigor and prestige are your only factors, you probably shouldn’t be looking at just Catholic schools anyway. There’s plenty of DC schools that are a higher tier.

If you are only considering Catholic, then Visi, Gonzaga, GP or Stone Ridge are the first tier of Catholic schools, just academically speaking.

Then, the other ones come in, if you want a bigger coed school, including SJC, DJO and BI. But, once you are considering those schools, you are considering location, friends, sports, etc, and not just academic rigor, so that’s why people are arguing the SJC, Scholars Program or not, is not so prestigious and rigorous that it is worth going to over a place that is closer to your house and friends. 
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I would not consider Visi academically better than SJC’s Scholar program. When DD was in 8th grade, both she and us had Visi as the first choice, primarily because it seemed more prestigious. But after several visits (open houses, shadow days) and asking lots of questions regarding their curriculum and evaluating school fit, we were much less impressed by Visi. They didn’t offer as many AP or honors classes, art classes were abominable and remedial, sports program wasn’t all that impressive. She scored 99% on the HSPT and was accepted into both schools, we chose SJC’s Scholars and the Cadet Corps program. DD loves SJC and all it has offered, and we have not regretted the decision. Icing on the cake - tuition at SJC is so much less, especially with the Presidential merit scholarship.[/quote]

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