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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SAAS parents, the college admissions seem pretty typical for a DC area public school - Harvard 1, Stanford 0, Princeton 0, Yale 0, Columbia 1 - over the past 3 years. How does that jibe with the academic focus and heavy emphasis on APs? [/quote]

There are only 30-40 graduates each year from SAAS (so about 5-10% of the size of a typical local public school graduating class).  So unless you multiply the SAAS admissions to particular schools by a factor of 10 your comparisons to public schools are meaningless.

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Hmm - new poster here - this still seems like a relatively small representation if the pp is correct in that the numbers quoted were over the past 3 years...[/quote]

SAAS is the kind of school that cares more about educating its young people than catering to the admissions games of top schools.  It really is a school for those who want a well educated child, especially in the traditional sense of that word.  It is not a great school for those who are focused on admission to a highly rated undergraduate institution (although they do have graduates who do go on to that kind of program).  Also,many of the SAAS families could not afford HYP.  The tuition at SAAS is not as high as other privates, and it attracts people who wouldn't otherwize consider private school, but are attracted either to its educational approach or to its religious aspect.  Many of these people are in the income level that does not receive much financial aid but can not easily afford full tuition, especially for multiple kids.  They tend to look for undergraduate institutions that give better financial packages.[/quote]

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