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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“My guess is that the Wilson kids families are likely more elite (intellectually) than most private school families.“

The arrogance is shocking.[/quote]

Your guess is wrong. Perhaps about 10 families of the over 1500 at Wilson are more "elite" (whatever that really means), but the vast majority are not. [b]For OP to cite about 10 kids out of over 600 as examples of great "placement" just shows what lack of critical thinking skills have been developed. [/b]Over 50% of kids graduating from schools like Sidwell, St. Albans, Potomac, NCS will go to schools like those she mentioned. Fewer than 1% from Wilson will. I'm a public school parent, by the way, but maintaining some common sense. [/quote]

Yes, let's use some critical thinking skills.  If OP is to be believed, she said that these college admissions results are all from kids on her block, or siblings of her kids' friends.  Sure, it's not a random sample, but what's the likelihood that [u]all[/u] the kids OP knows just happen to be part of the 1% who had great college admissions?

I suspect that for kids at Wilson who are taking challenging courses, the percentage is much higher than 1%.[/quote]

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