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Anonymous wrote:Underrepresented minority: black or Latino. I'm not going to out the handful of UMC seniors who've been admitted to Ivies by mentioning family specifics. If you want to believe that DCI did the heavy lifting in these cases, you can. The reality is that these families supplemented a lot and paid a lot to supplement. The kids were go-getters on the Spanish track without being pushed hard. I know of at least one family that hired their own college adviser (not cheap). Thinking in terms of DCI having become a powerhouse program producing white and Asian seniors destined for the Ivy League is naive. Not a bad school but not on a par with "rivals" (BASIS, Latin, JR, Walls) for UMC college acceptances and not on track to become one. The focus at DCI remains firmly on IBD for all/providing college pathways to disadvantaged urban youth.

Do you know how racist you sound?

The irony could be that I'm not white. Sounds like you need a different target for today's ad hominem potshot.

I don’t care what your race is you’re still a racist pos

pos? What's a pos?

Anonymous wrote:Grow up. No secret that URMs get a little preferential treatment in elite college admissions, and more than a little if they're low-income. According to the NY Times, most AAs no longer support the preferences and the SC seems poised to ditch them. That's our reality here in 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/15/us/affirmative-action-admissions-scotus.html

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Anonymous wrote:Underrepresented minority: black or Latino. I'm not going to out the handful of UMC seniors who've been admitted to Ivies by mentioning family specifics. If you want to believe that DCI did the heavy lifting in these cases, you can. The reality is that these families supplemented a lot and paid a lot to supplement. The kids were go-getters on the Spanish track without being pushed hard. I know of at least one family that hired their own college adviser (not cheap). Thinking in terms of DCI having become a powerhouse program producing white and Asian seniors destined for the Ivy League is naive. Not a bad school but not on a par with "rivals" (BASIS, Latin, JR, Walls) for UMC college acceptances and not on track to become one. The focus at DCI remains firmly on IBD for all/providing college pathways to disadvantaged urban youth.

Do you know how racist you sound?

The irony could be that I'm not white. Sounds like you need a different target for today's ad hominem potshot.

I don’t care what your race is you’re still a racist pos

Also- “Thinking in terms of DCI having become a powerhouse program producing white and Asian seniors destined for the Ivy League is naive.”

Take your mediocre white and Asian kids elsewhere.

There are plenty of other schools who ignore the achievements of Hispanic and black kids and focus on the mediocre kids with pushy parents.

Seriously, I bet it’s the crazy Asian mom posting in every DCI thread about the Chinese

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Anonymous wrote:Underrepresented minority: black or Latino. I'm not going to out the handful of UMC seniors who've been admitted to Ivies by mentioning family specifics. If you want to believe that DCI did the heavy lifting in these cases, you can. The reality is that these families supplemented a lot and paid a lot to supplement. The kids were go-getters on the Spanish track without being pushed hard. I know of at least one family that hired their own college adviser (not cheap). Thinking in terms of DCI having become a powerhouse program producing white and Asian seniors destined for the Ivy League is naive. Not a bad school but not on a par with "rivals" (BASIS, Latin, JR, Walls) for UMC college acceptances and not on track to become one. The focus at DCI remains firmly on IBD for all/providing college pathways to disadvantaged urban youth.

Do you know how racist you sound?

The irony could be that I'm not white. Sounds like you need a different target for today's ad hominem potshot.

I don’t care what your race is you’re still a racist pos

Also- “Thinking in terms of DCI having become a powerhouse program producing white and Asian seniors destined for the Ivy League is naive.”

Take your mediocre white and Asian kids elsewhere.

There are plenty of other schools who ignore the achievements of Hispanic and black kids and focus on the mediocre kids with pushy parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Underrepresented minority: black or Latino. I'm not going to out the handful of UMC seniors who've been admitted to Ivies by mentioning family specifics. If you want to believe that DCI did the heavy lifting in these cases, you can. The reality is that these families supplemented a lot and paid a lot to supplement. The kids were go-getters on the Spanish track without being pushed hard. I know of at least one family that hired their own college adviser (not cheap). Thinking in terms of DCI having become a powerhouse program producing white and Asian seniors destined for the Ivy League is naive. Not a bad school but not on a par with "rivals" (BASIS, Latin, JR, Walls) for UMC college acceptances and not on track to become one. The focus at DCI remains firmly on IBD for all/providing college pathways to disadvantaged urban youth.

Do you know how racist you sound?

The irony could be that I'm not white. Sounds like you need a different target for today's ad hominem potshot.

I don’t care what your race is you’re still a racist pos

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Anonymous wrote:Underrepresented minority: black or Latino. I'm not going to out the handful of UMC seniors who've been admitted to Ivies by mentioning family specifics. If you want to believe that DCI did the heavy lifting in these cases, you can. The reality is that these families supplemented a lot and paid a lot to supplement. The kids were go-getters on the Spanish track without being pushed hard. I know of at least one family that hired their own college adviser (not cheap). Thinking in terms of DCI having become a powerhouse program producing white and Asian seniors destined for the Ivy League is naive. Not a bad school but not on a par with "rivals" (BASIS, Latin, JR, Walls) for UMC college acceptances and not on track to become one. The focus at DCI remains firmly on IBD for all/providing college pathways to disadvantaged urban youth.

Do you know how racist you sound?

The irony could be that I'm not white. Sounds like you need a different target for today's ad hominem potshot.

I don’t care what your race is you’re still a racist pos

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Anonymous wrote:Underrepresented minority: black or Latino. I'm not going to out the handful of UMC seniors who've been admitted to Ivies by mentioning family specifics. If you want to believe that DCI did the heavy lifting in these cases, you can. The reality is that these families supplemented a lot and paid a lot to supplement. The kids were go-getters on the Spanish track without being pushed hard. I know of at least one family that hired their own college adviser (not cheap). Thinking in terms of DCI having become a powerhouse program producing white and Asian seniors destined for the Ivy League is naive. Not a bad school but not on a par with "rivals" (BASIS, Latin, JR, Walls) for UMC college acceptances and not on track to become one. The focus at DCI remains firmly on IBD for all/providing college pathways to disadvantaged urban youth.

Do you know how racist you sound?

The irony could be that I'm not white. Sounds like you need a different target for today's ad hominem potshot.

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Anonymous wrote:Underrepresented minority: black or Latino. I'm not going to out the handful of UMC seniors who've been admitted to Ivies by mentioning family specifics. If you want to believe that DCI did the heavy lifting in these cases, you can. The reality is that these families supplemented a lot and paid a lot to supplement. The kids were go-getters on the Spanish track without being pushed hard. I know of at least one family that hired their own college adviser (not cheap). Thinking in terms of DCI having become a powerhouse program producing white and Asian seniors destined for the Ivy League is naive. Not a bad school but not on a par with "rivals" (BASIS, Latin, JR, Walls) for UMC college acceptances and not on track to become one. The focus at DCI remains firmly on IBD for all/providing college pathways to disadvantaged urban youth.

Do you know how racist you sound?

Anonymous wrote:You’re not wrong, PP.

Anonymous wrote:Underrepresented minority: black or Latino. I'm not going to out the handful of UMC seniors who've been admitted to Ivies by mentioning family specifics. If you want to believe that DCI did the heavy lifting in these cases, you can. The reality is that these families supplemented a lot and paid a lot to supplement. The kids were go-getters on the Spanish track without being pushed hard. I know of at least one family that hired their own college adviser (not cheap). Thinking in terms of DCI having become a powerhouse program producing white and Asian seniors destined for the Ivy League is naive. Not a bad school but not on a par with "rivals" (BASIS, Latin, JR, Walls) for UMC college acceptances and not on track to become one. The focus at DCI remains firmly on IBD for all/providing college pathways to disadvantaged urban youth.

Anonymous wrote:Cambridge Exams are catching up in the US in large part because the College Board ditched SAT II subject exams, what used to be called Achievement Tests, a few years ago.

SAT IIs were v. helpful to American IB Diploma students to show mastery of subjects IB doesn't test until June of senior year. SAT IIs used to be given several times a year, like the regular SATs.

I remember taking 3 or 4 SATs as an IBD student. I went to a top 10 SLAC.

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Anonymous wrote:Underrepresented minority: black or Latino. I'm not going to out the handful of UMC seniors who've been admitted to Ivies by mentioning family specifics. If you want to believe that DCI did the heavy lifting in these cases, you can. The reality is that these families supplemented a lot and paid a lot to supplement. The kids were go-getters on the Spanish track without being pushed hard. I know of at least one family that hired their own college adviser (not cheap). Thinking in terms of DCI having become a powerhouse program producing white and Asian seniors destined for the Ivy League is naive. Not a bad school but not on a par with "rivals" (BASIS, Latin, JR, Walls) for UMC college acceptances and not on track to become one. The focus at DCI remains firmly on IBD for all/providing college pathways to disadvantaged urban youth.

Sincere question: Why do most of these threads here not talk about Banneker on this list? Isn't Banneker the best in test scores of all these DC public schools? But it gets left off the BASIS, Latin, JR, SWW, DCI list almost every time.

Why is that?

Banneker doesn’t have the best test scores? Eg last year Banneker’s average SAT was 1088, SWW was 1317.