Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And a Brown acceptance! Even more important, 10 MILLION in scholarships!!!

Parent of a DCI Senior here.

For those talking about the Ivies and other “top” schools, out of approximately 90 seniors:

One Brown acceptance
Two Cornell acceptances
Two Yale acceptances
One Vanderbilt acceptance
Many Spelman acceptances
One Howard acceptance
Two Macalester acceptances
One Middlebury acceptance
Carnegie Mellon acceptance
Johns Hopkins
Barnard
McGill
A couple of UVA offers (not sure if accepted)
Georgia Tech
One Durham University in England
One or two Pitt acceptances
George Washington
American
Several HBCUs

Many, many other awesome acceptances and offers and yes, over $10 million in scholarship offers!!

From this class, two left to go to Walls, a couple left because they moved out of state.... most stayed.

We are a WOTP family in the Lafayette, Deal Wilson area who took a chance on a feeder school years ago.

We did this because we wanted Chinese language immersion and more racial and socioeconomic diversity for our children.

Our senior applied to Walls and got in and chose to stay at DCI - we gave her the choice (but luckily it was our choice too).

We have been so grateful over the years to be in such rich and diverse school environments.

A PP said wisely that every school has behavioral issues. I think this is true.

The IB is rigorous and DCI implements it with fidelity. I have observed our DD, her study habits and her grades.

We have been very happy at DCI and think it has done a brilliant job in preparing the first two graduating classes well (2020 and 2021).

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Anonymous wrote:It's a fair point that Walls, Wilson and Banneker were never struggling AP HS programs. DCI could also have started out strong.

Walls and Banneker are test in schools that self select. BTW the average pass points at DCI in the IB diploma is just as good as Banneker.

You really don’t know the history of Wilson at all. It wasn’t always a higher performing school.

I know the history of Wilson. The school struggled until Dunbar, the jewel in the DCPS crown until the early 1980s, fell on hard times as the city pushed to desegregate neighborhood schools. This led to a big influx of strong black students into Wilson in just a few years.

DCI could easily offer more test-in classes within the school, and stop socially promoting. They're happy to support acceleration in middle school math, and that's about it DCI's "advanced" language classes just aren't very advanced.

BASIS doesn't socially promote, the key to their success.

And yet, Basis college acceptances are not any better than DCI’s

Come on, BASIS' college acceptances are better, particularly for UMC students. BASIS got two into MIT in 2019 and another 2 in 2020. This year, they have on into Harvard, one into Yale.

How many into MIT and Harvard from DCI?

Not sure, maybe none. But one DCI grad is going to Yale this year. Impressive for first year!

But I do agree with the criticisms of the lack of tracking. My kid was reading the same in sixth grade English as he did in fifth grade at his feeder. And he said math was boring.

Anonymous wrote:DCI college acceptances sound fantastic. I'm glad to hear that a couple students cracked Yale. But I still can't understand why only 15 students could earn the IB diploma last year after many years of supposedly rigorous studies.

I also can't understand why the dozen DCI high school students we know in the neighborhood who study our home language at the school speak it so poorly, although they starting learning it at age 4 or 5. Their parents have often asked us to chat with them in our language over the years. It's always been an awkward conversation because we're not remotely impressed with how well these kids can speak or understand our native tongue.

We're just not interested in DCI for our children, who start middle school shortly, based on these results.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And a Brown acceptance! Even more important, 10 MILLION in scholarships!!!

Parent of a DCI Senior here.

For those talking about the Ivies and other “top” schools, out of approximately 90 seniors:

One Brown acceptance
Two Cornell acceptances
Two Yale acceptances
One Vanderbilt acceptance
Many Spelman acceptances
One Howard acceptance
Two Macalester acceptances
One Middlebury acceptance
Carnegie Mellon acceptance
Johns Hopkins
Barnard
McGill
A couple of UVA offers (not sure if accepted)
Georgia Tech
One Durham University in England
One or two Pitt acceptances
George Washington
American
Several HBCUs

Many, many other awesome acceptances and offers and yes, over $10 million in scholarship offers!!

From this class, two left to go to Walls, a couple left because they moved out of state.... most stayed.

We are a WOTP family in the Lafayette, Deal Wilson area who took a chance on a feeder school years ago.

We did this because we wanted Chinese language immersion and more racial and socioeconomic diversity for our children.

Our senior applied to Walls and got in and chose to stay at DCI - we gave her the choice (but luckily it was our choice too).

We have been so grateful over the years to be in such rich and diverse school environments.

A PP said wisely that every school has behavioral issues. I think this is true.

The IB is rigorous and DCI implements it with fidelity. I have observed our DD, her study habits and her grades.

We have been very happy at DCI and think it has done a brilliant job in preparing the first two graduating classes well (2020 and 2021).

Where is your child going?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And a Brown acceptance! Even more important, 10 MILLION in scholarships!!!

Parent of a DCI Senior here.

For those talking about the Ivies and other “top” schools, out of approximately 90 seniors:

One Brown acceptance
Two Cornell acceptances
Two Yale acceptances
One Vanderbilt acceptance
Many Spelman acceptances
One Howard acceptance
Two Macalester acceptances
One Middlebury acceptance
Carnegie Mellon acceptance
Johns Hopkins
Barnard
McGill
A couple of UVA offers (not sure if accepted)
Georgia Tech
One Durham University in England
One or two Pitt acceptances
George Washington
American
Several HBCUs

Many, many other awesome acceptances and offers and yes, over $10 million in scholarship offers!!

From this class, two left to go to Walls, a couple left because they moved out of state.... most stayed.

We are a WOTP family in the Lafayette, Deal Wilson area who took a chance on a feeder school years ago.

We did this because we wanted Chinese language immersion and more racial and socioeconomic diversity for our children.

Our senior applied to Walls and got in and chose to stay at DCI - we gave her the choice (but luckily it was our choice too).

We have been so grateful over the years to be in such rich and diverse school environments.

A PP said wisely that every school has behavioral issues. I think this is true.

The IB is rigorous and DCI implements it with fidelity. I have observed our DD, her study habits and her grades.

We have been very happy at DCI and think it has done a brilliant job in preparing the first two graduating classes well (2020 and 2021).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And a Brown acceptance! Even more important, 10 MILLION in scholarships!!!

Parent of a DCI Senior here.

For those talking about the Ivies and other “top” schools, out of approximately 90 seniors:

One Brown acceptance
Two Cornell acceptances
Two Yale acceptances
One Vanderbilt acceptance
Many Spelman acceptances
One Howard acceptance
Two Macalester acceptances
One Middlebury acceptance
Carnegie Mellon acceptance
Johns Hopkins
Barnard
McGill
A couple of UVA offers (not sure if accepted)
Georgia Tech
One Durham University in England
One or two Pitt acceptances
George Washington
American
Several HBCUs

Many, many other awesome acceptances and offers and yes, over $10 million in scholarship offers!!

From this class, two left to go to Walls, a couple left because they moved out of state.... most stayed.

We are a WOTP family in the Lafayette, Deal Wilson area who took a chance on a feeder school years ago.

We did this because we wanted Chinese language immersion and more racial and socioeconomic diversity for our children.

Our senior applied to Walls and got in and chose to stay at DCI - we gave her the choice (but luckily it was our choice too).

We have been so grateful over the years to be in such rich and diverse school environments.

A PP said wisely that every school has behavioral issues. I think this is true.

The IB is rigorous and DCI implements it with fidelity. I have observed our DD, her study habits and her grades.

We have been very happy at DCI and think it has done a brilliant job in preparing the first two graduating classes well (2020 and 2021).