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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids are compared against their peers in their high school first.  So yes standing out gives one an advantage in college admissions.

Many FCPS high schools are schools within schools.  A group going on to college, a group taking advantage of vocational training opportunities and a group where high school is the terminal education point.

Having a 1580 SAT and a 4.5 GPA at West Potomac is going to stand out more than those same figures at TJ or McLean or Langley.  [/quote]

It’s less likely you’ll end up with that 1580 SAT if you’ve come up through the West Potomac pyramid.  And only a few schools are going to care about making sure they offer seats to kids from every FCPS high school.  
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Bullshit. Pyramids don’t produce 1580’s. Paying for tutoring does. [/quote]

We’d see better NMSF/CS results at the lower ranked schools if all the UMC families needed to do was buy into those schools and then pay for tutoring.

Nope, if you want to prepare your kids well, you make sure they attend schools with high performing peers, not schools that focus on the bare minimum needed to get kids to graduate.

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Yeah you still don’t get it. When you have an entire school trying to buy prestige, you have some success stats to cherry pick. When most of the school can’t do that, you can’t cherry pick the few that have resources. Not EVERY rich kid can buy success. But out of an entire school is rich kids you can purchase some 1580’s. [/quote]

What you don’t get is that the most educated parents in the county consistently prefer, given a choice, that their kids attend schools with a culture of academic excellence, rather than attend schools where the primary focus is on getting kids to pass SOLs and graduate and the more affluent parents look down on most of the kids as an undifferentiated group of low achievers who exist merely to make their own kids look better by comparison.  They want strong schools, not “schools within a school” or whatever other cute phrase you can come up with.

I’m sorry that vexes you so much, but it’s the reality as long as the county isn’t dictating which schools kids can attend. [/quote]

You sound biased, not educated. [/quote]

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