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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually white kids at Washington-Lee HAVE achieved higher SAT scores than white kids at Yorktown for the last four years in a row.  Three and four years ago it wasn't by that much, but for the last two years it's been a difference of over thirty points.  (It was 60 points in 2014.)

I can't speak to the college question except that I saw somewhere on this board that more W-L than Yorktown kids got admitted to ivies either this year or last.[/quote]
 The greatest inference to be drawn here is that there are some white parents at W-L who could not give a hoot about the sub-par performance of non-white students at W-L compared to Yorktown. That is a shame, since there are a whole lot more of them at W-L at Yorktown.[/quote]

Of course I care about the performance of all the kids at the school.  But I'm a white parent who is zoned for W-L who is trying to fight back against the perception that the school is underperforming compared to Yorktown scores.  The FARM kids at W-L will not have a better experience if all the rich (probably white) kids get scared of the test scores and move somewhere else and their PTA and other volunteer contributions vanish. [b] The reality is that if you are white your kid will likely achieve better results at W-L than at Yorktown (as the test scores indicate)[/b], while at the same time keeping your kid at W-L despite its higher FARMs rate than Yorktown helps the FARMs kids if you support the school with $ or volunteerism.  In that way it's a bit like ATS except without the lottery.  So, win-win.[/quote]

There are twice as many white kids taking the SAT at Yorktown than there are at WL.  And WL has [b]a magnet program that attracts white kids[/b].  These two facts alone account for the slight discrepency between reported SAT scores for white kids in both schools.  It has nothing to do with [b]WL offering a superior education[/b].  You know zero about statistics.
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And you know nothing about logic.[/quote]
There is no reason why SAT scores for white students at Yorktown should decline in proportion to the number of white students at the school.  On the other hand, if W-L gets white students who take the initiative to transfer there for IB, that should be expected to have a positive impact on the scores there, and it does.  Had those students stayed at Yorktown, they likely would have performed just as well on their SATs.[/quote]

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