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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well I am a black woman who scored extremely high on the SAT and LSAT -- high enough to get me an Ivy education and law degree.  My siblings also scored very high on every standardized test they took.  Are we freaks?  No.  We just have parents who are SERIOUS about education.  Banneker's scores are very disappointing for DC's only test-in school.  One explanation is that the privates skim the best students off the top.[/quote]

+100.  Good for you.  I, too, scored high on the SAT and GRE although I was to become the sole Ivy Leaguer of my public high school class.  My siblings, who attended the same school, went to Harvard.  We had some fine teachers, particularly math teachers, and parents who restricted our TV viewing.  We read a lot, making lists of vocabulary words we didn't know as we went for years before we hit the SAT.  We looked up the words, and studied definitions, as our test prep.

Utter nonsense that an "elite" test-in school where SAT scores hover around the national average is serving its students well.  I've interviewed Banneker valedictorians applying to my Ivy who were so far out of their league that they needn't have bothered.  Disaster, source of shame.  [/quote]

I personally know a few Banneker grads who went on to excellent colleges -Ivy included- and graduate schools and have successful careers as physicians, lawyers etc.  These people are all in their 30s.  I've never bothered to ask them their test scores (seriously, does that matter 20 years out of high school?)  Has the school gone downhill since the 90s or have they never put an emphasis on standardized testing - does anyone here know?[/quote]

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