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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Really?!?! I'm a PP who has had kids in private and at a "W" school in MoCo. It is just wrong, and funny, to suggest that there are "so few" of the very top students at the top public schools. Couldn't be farther from the truth. Some of these kids are knock-your-socks-off smart. Do you really think the doctors, lawyers, PhD's, lobbyists, journalists, etc. of Bethesda don't have equally smart, qualified kids in the public schools as the doctors, lawyers, etc. who send their kids to private? If you believe that, you are drinking some kind of kool-aid. Public or private, there are many very smart kids in this area.[/quote]

Exactly.  When you're talking about the schools in the wealthiest areas of Montgomery county and Northern Virginia, there is no shortage of high performing, incredibly intelligent kids.  It is completely misguided to think that this is not the case, or that if you transfer your middle of the road kid from Sidwell or NCS/STA that they will immediately rise to the top.[/quote]

A little quick research suggests that the very top "W" school students likely are just as talented as the private school students at top schools, and vice versa that the average students at top private schools are likely just as talented as the very top "W" students.  Holton's mean R+M SAT score is 1346 (with middle 50% of class at 1240-1450).  Walter Johnson's 55 "APEX Scholars" (which represent about 10% of the class) have a very similar mean score of 1379.  So assuming normal distributions, it's reasonable to guess that if Holton's entire senior class transferred to WJ, they're be scattered across the top 20% of WJ's class.[/quote]

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