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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see why we're screwing around in this discussion with partial and obscure results from Sidwell; we all know Sidwell keeps their students' data on lock-down, and the data PP posted is crappy and incomplete.  Let's just do a full comparison against private schools that provide lots of data.

[u]2013 grads: School / class size / # attending Ivy colleges / % attending Ivy[/u]
Holton Arms: 85 seniors / 11 to Ivy / 13%
Landon: 78 seniors / 9 to Ivy / 12%
Potomac: ~90 seniors / 9 to Ivy / 10% (5yr average)
GPrep: ~115 seniors / 8 to Ivy / 7%
Bullis: ~100 seniors / 3 to Ivy / 3% (5yr average)
Whitman: 461 seniors / 20 to Ivy / 4%

Note: I know Ivy colleges are not the only good colleges out there, and I know lots of people might prefer certain non-Ivy colleges.  But they provide an easy measuring stick for this sort of comparison.  If you want to compare the high schools based on some other measure (e.g., USNWR top-25 colleges, HYPMS, top party schools in the PAC-10, etc), be my guest.[/quote]

I'd argue that 461 isn't really the right denominator for Whitman.  That includes special ed kids (with significant disabilities), international students who are in the ESOL program, and plenty of ordinary students who are aiming for MD schools below UMD.  The only selection process for Whitman is living in bounds.

But whatever - you keep paying $35k a year for private school and tell yourself it's the road to ivy covered wonderland.  See you in Ann Arbor for a football game![/quote]

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