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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp here. I realize you are looking for gifted programs. I just went through touring privates and we moved to McLean for their top schools not long ago. In my personal opinion, the best schools for the best students are as follows:

1. FCPS TJ
2. Big 3 Private - Sidwell, STA, NCS
3. MCPS - Richard Montgomery Magnet
4. Second tier Privates - Holton, Maret
4. MCPS - W schools
5. FCPS top schools - McLean, Langley, Oakton, Marshall
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Like you said, it's your opinion but it is deeply wrong. 
Also OP said "especially in math/STEM", the [b]private schools are nowhere near the top.[/b][/quote]

Privates can't compete with public magnets. [/quote]

Yes, because they are so much better.
The best schools for top students are top privates.  The only kids who get in without a hook are gifted students.  The other kids are legacy, high school athletes, or children of big donors.  All the classes cater to gifted kids and make learning fun.  In no order: GDS, Sidwell, NCS, STA, Maret, Holten, Bullis, Georgetown Prep, and probably many that I’m forgetting.  Public schools simply don’t have the resources for differentiated learning on the scale of good privates.  On top of that privates select their students.  The only public that comes close is TJ, and still the resources are not comparable.[/quote]
DP.. there are some private school kids who will apply to magnets from their private school, and if they get in, they go to the magnet.

The magnet programs have way more high achieving peer cohorts than private schools do.

I can't speak to the programs, and neither can you, since no one has experienced all of the private schools you mentioned AND all of the magnet programs listed, but you can't argue that the peer cohort at these magnets can be replicated in the private schools.  It's a numbers game.[/quote]

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