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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think there's much if any disagreement on advice to the OP.  Both great schools, go for fit.

But the agreement I was hoping for on data use/collection was that you'd put a little more thought into what you're trying to measure and how best to do that.  You tend to start with easily available data and graft on (and/or encourage others to graft on) theses it doesn't support.
And I think you shouldn't make judgments about the data based on guesswork re last names, especially when doing so involves suggesting that another poster (again, NOT ME) who, in this case, turned out to know more than you did, is blowing smoke/lying.  I don't fault you for not knowing what that PP knew when you assembled the data (if I remember correctly, your kids are preschoolers and I suspect the PP's are HS'ers who are involved in math competitions).  But when someone makes an empirical claim and suggests you investigate, maybe you should treat it was a more open mind and a little more diligence before you blow them off.

I did -- honestly, I had no idea who was right.  And it didn't take me long to see PP wasn't making stuff up.  BTW, a little more poking around yielded two more Chinese exchange students (Shi and Liu) who were Sidwell's top AMC/AMO performers in the period you singled out (2005-present).

Again, I think Sidwell's Chinese program is a selling point for the school.  But PP was not inaccurate when s/he pointed out that its students have been major contributors to Sidwell's AMC/AMO/IMO performances.  They're still Sidwell students, they're still a valuable part of the cohort, they still reflect glory on the school.  But their math skills aren't primarily a function or reflection of the quality of Sidwell's math instruction.  [/quote]

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