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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at public school matriculations, the schools that are having more success are from wealthy white neighborhoods.  The typical MCPS school is not having the same success, probably because there are no legacies at those schools.  [/quote]

Yes, but the internal competition is insane. If your kid is the seventh-best application to Penn that year, the odds are that they are getting rejected. If they apply from a second-tier public school, they will have a better chance at standing out.

People have a hard time understanding this. A school can collectively have great college results, but that has to do with the pre-selected quality of students. Individual high-achievers always have better results from less-competitive high schools. It's the "big fish in a small pond" hypothesis.

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Percentages. You’re competing with more students in a class of 500, compared to a class of 75 to 125. I’d much rather take my chances competing against fewer classmates. [/quote]

Fewer classmates, but much stronger and influential ones. [/quote]

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