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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And the students are not all getting 5s on APs.  Far from it.[/quote]

At what school are all the kids getting 5s on APs?  The point is that there are plenty of classes that are challenging, many of which are in the social sciences and so have a decent amount of writing.

I would also emphasize the extracurricular opportunities that are academic in nature and that have a strong writing component--the Beacon, mock trial, and debate.  Is this the same as mandatory writing requirements that you would get in a private school?  No.  But they are pretty intensive and the feedback kids get (from faculty advisors and their peers) is excellent.

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The PP was referring to the JR kids getting accepted to the Top10 schools...not the general JR population.

Again, 60% of JR students on average score 3 or higher.[/quote]

It is a small minority of JR students getting into the top 10 schools.
Why is this thread focusing on the top 5% of students. The top group of kids (maybe the top 30 students by GPA) would be fine anywhere.
What is JR like for the kid who is not able to handle a course load of 10+ APs. What options do they have. From what I have heard the non AP courses are fairly low level. It would be nice if the honors classes were actually honors[/quote]

Only a handful of kids matriculate to T10 schools in any given year from Wilson-JR.  Remove the crew recruits and the number is probably around 7 or 8 kids.

Yes, I obsessively track the IG and official YouTube videos, which have been comprehensive in recent years.  There are a lot of fine schools in there -- Bates, Colby, Tulane and that ilk -- but these are not T10.[/quote]

Ugh, you again. It doesn’t bother me that you’re so obsessed with this. It bothers me that you’re wrong and insist on being wrong repeatedly, all to denigrate the accomplishments of a bunch of kids.

This year through ED/EA alone there are Harvard, Brown, Cornell, and Northwestern admissions. I don’t know if those are all “T10” schools, but I do know that the students aren’t crew recruits. Not all of the admissions/attendance decisions end up on IG. (And please save your dignity and don’t tell us about how you’ve stalked their parents on LinkedIn so you know they’re all legacies. You creep.)[/quote]

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