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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously, what's so special about Sherwood? The avg SAT score of 1600 is [b]not even enough for UMD[/b]. [/quote]

Well, one thing that is special about Sherwood is that children that don't get into UMD are not shamed by their community. Also the ones that go to UMD are not made to believe that UMD is the bottom of the barrel. Do you know that only 30% of the population go to college and 50% of those 30% do not graduate in 6 years. So only 15% of the population graduate from college within 6 years of graduation.

This attitude is precisely why parents do not want to raise their children in the W districts.

When my neighbor's daughter decided to start her own business, sure her mom was nervous that she was not going to college. But she was not shamed into trying to go to college even though she knew it was not her calling. 10 years later she has a very successful business.

Average SAT does not mean anything for my specific child. It only means that my child has friends that didn't get into the UMD. They go to Towson/Salisbury/WVU/UMBC. Oh the horror! She also has friends that went to Northwestern/Amherst/Boston University/Princeton/Duke.

The friend that went to UMBC, worked for Price Water House Coopers for a bit and is now working for a senator on the hill at the age of 25 and was just accepted to Dartmouth business school. FROM UMBC... OMG!

That is actually the definition of diversity. She has friends who will be the 1st person in their family to go to college and they live in a huge house. You do realize there are successful people that don't go to college, right?[/quote]

Useful post to OP (if OP is still here). OP - you need to make sure you are comfortable with above post b/c you will have to deal with it when your DC applies to colleges. [/quote]

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