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Anonymous wrote:Percentage of students attending T20 universities at top privates: 20%-30%

Percentage of students attending T20 universities at top MCPS high schools: 5%

Good SAT scores are great, but the quality and prestige of the schools kids get into and attend is even more important. Let's not forget!!

1. those aren't all top privates

2. money, connections, and legacy buys college entrance, and there is more of that in private schools than public. So, that's an apples to orange comparison.

Given the amount of money these private school parents have, I would think the average SAT scores should be higher than the surrounding publics, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

3. You have poor data analysis skills

Oh my. You are really emotionally invested in this. Probably not all that healthy for you, right?

I guess that means you can't argue with what I stated. I was responding to the PP. I guess they also are too emotionally invested.

Also, no where in my post does it show that I am emotionally invested in this. OP posted this thread. It showed up on the Recent list. Shrug. Maybe private school parents shouldn't post these kinds of click bait threads, or maybe you should ask Jeff to not put Private school forum in the Recent list.

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Anonymous wrote:Percentage of students attending T20 universities at top privates: 20%-30%

Percentage of students attending T20 universities at top MCPS high schools: 5%

Good SAT scores are great, but the quality and prestige of the schools kids get into and attend is even more important. Let's not forget!!

1. those aren't all top privates

2. money, connections, and legacy buys college entrance, and there is more of that in private schools than public. So, that's an apples to orange comparison.

Given the amount of money these private school parents have, I would think the average SAT scores should be higher than the surrounding publics, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

3. You have poor data analysis skills

Oh my. You are really emotionally invested in this. Probably not all that healthy for you, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Percentage of students attending T20 universities at top privates: 20%-30%

Percentage of students attending T20 universities at top MCPS high schools: 5%

Good SAT scores are great, but the quality and prestige of the schools kids get into and attend is even more important. Let's not forget!!

1. those aren't all top privates

2. money, connections, and legacy buys college entrance, and there is more of that in private schools than public. So, that's an apples to orange comparison.

Given the amount of money these private school parents have, I would think the average SAT scores should be higher than the surrounding publics, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

3. You have poor data analysis skills

Anonymous wrote:Percentage of students attending T20 universities at top privates: 20%-30%

Percentage of students attending T20 universities at top MCPS high schools: 5%

Good SAT scores are great, but the quality and prestige of the schools kids get into and attend is even more important. Let's not forget!!

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Anonymous wrote:Trust me, no Catholic parent is selecting these schools based upon scores - we never even thought about it. Catholics don’t view our schools like many view the independent schools (ie, college admission stats and or standardized test scores). We go for other reasons and for the most part, many of the parents at Visi or Gonzaga are wealthy/very connected or highly educated. They can go to most any college/university and still get a great job because of the network. They don’t see college like you - a gateway into a different higher class. For example, we are in Chevy Chase. The goal for most of our girls has always been Visi, going generations back. We are not at all interested in the independent schools even if they sent their entire graduating class to Harvard. I know that statement seems extreme but there isn’t really a way to emphasize just how much our families laser focus on the schools at the top of the list and there are many tears and lots of hand wringing if our kid doesn’t get in.

WTF do you care so much about Visi? That just seems to affirm what some PPs say. It's cultish.

Rich people really are cultish.

Anonymous wrote:Trust me, no Catholic parent is selecting these schools based upon scores - we never even thought about it. Catholics don’t view our schools like many view the independent schools (ie, college admission stats and or standardized test scores). We go for other reasons and for the most part, many of the parents at Visi or Gonzaga are wealthy/very connected or highly educated. They can go to most any college/university and still get a great job because of the network. They don’t see college like you - a gateway into a different higher class. For example, we are in Chevy Chase. The goal for most of our girls has always been Visi, going generations back. We are not at all interested in the independent schools even if they sent their entire graduating class to Harvard. I know that statement seems extreme but there isn’t really a way to emphasize just how much our families laser focus on the schools at the top of the list and there are many tears and lots of hand wringing if our kid doesn’t get in.

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Anonymous wrote:I just looked at the source posted with the SAT scores and our $45,000 private school has an average SAT score in the 1200s. This school is considered to be one of the top Catholic schools in the DMV that is highly sought after. College matriculations to top 20 schools are around 25% of the student body (vs around 5% in public schools). Sure, your public school might have a higher average SAT, but I am actually much happier with my kid being among others with lower scores because it will make her stand out even more. See how that works?

I'm sure it's easy to stick out in a graduating class of 10 students.

All at the bargain basement price of $180k! See ya at the state college parent weekend!

Welp my older one is currently at an ivy, so I doubt I will see you. We don't do state schools.

But you do do a$$holery, I see. And quite well, at that!
-dp

Don't forget arrogance, self aggrandizement and classism. All virtues I'm sure they're teaching their kids. This one acts as if public school kids don't get in ivy leagues as well.

Oh I am sure some do, but I was responding to the other A$$hole who mocked our choice to send our kids to private school. It goes both ways, and he basically asked for it. Glad to see my post triggered you.

Anonymous wrote:Percentage of students attending T20 universities at top privates: 20%-30%

Percentage of students attending T20 universities at top MCPS high schools: 5%

Good SAT scores are great, but the quality and prestige of the schools kids get into and attend is even more important. Let's not forget!!

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Anonymous wrote:Our FCPS public's average is higher than about half of those.

Then your school isn’t particularly impressive

Right, you basically just said your school falls in the middle of the pack.

Well yeah... Middle of the pack for free. Imagine paying $50k±/year and getting these scores. Yikes.

Some of us don’t care about SAT scores averages. That wasn’t even on my list of concerns when we selected our Catholic high school.

And why criticize these scores anyway? They’re all solid scores.

DCUM is far too obsessed with putting others down.

LOL.. I bet you've put down public schools plenty of time.

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Anonymous wrote:Trust me, no Catholic parent is selecting these schools based upon scores - we never even thought about it. Catholics don’t view our schools like many view the independent schools (ie, college admission stats and or standardized test scores). We go for other reasons and for the most part, many of the parents at Visi or Gonzaga are wealthy/very connected or highly educated. They can go to most any college/university and still get a great job because of the network. They don’t see college like you - a gateway into a different higher class. For example, we are in Chevy Chase. The goal for most of our girls has always been Visi, going generations back. We are not at all interested in the independent schools even if they sent their entire graduating class to Harvard. I know that statement seems extreme but there isn’t really a way to emphasize just how much our families laser focus on the schools at the top of the list and there are many tears and lots of hand wringing if our kid doesn’t get in.

+1

In our experience it’s very cultish. Our neighborhood has a ton of Catholic school families. When we first moved in, it took us a while to realize that when people asked us where we went to school, there weren’t asking about college. They wanted to know if we went to Catholic HS, and which one. Its was a little bizarre.

Anonymous wrote:Trust me, no Catholic parent is selecting these schools based upon scores - we never even thought about it. Catholics don’t view our schools like many view the independent schools (ie, college admission stats and or standardized test scores). We go for other reasons and for the most part, many of the parents at Visi or Gonzaga are wealthy/very connected or highly educated. They can go to most any college/university and still get a great job because of the network. They don’t see college like you - a gateway into a different higher class. For example, we are in Chevy Chase. The goal for most of our girls has always been Visi, going generations back. We are not at all interested in the independent schools even if they sent their entire graduating class to Harvard. I know that statement seems extreme but there isn’t really a way to emphasize just how much our families laser focus on the schools at the top of the list and there are many tears and lots of hand wringing if our kid doesn’t get in.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of those are lower than the average SATs of surrounding public.

Surrounding public is more likely to have a group of low performers who aren't taking the SAT at all.

And most privates don't take those low performers as students. So that evens out, yet, some of the surrounding publics still have a higher SAT average.

Oh, yea, I know I know... test scores don't matter that much. Tell that to OP.

There are a lot of kids at private schools who are there because of issues that will affect scores (ADD, etc.).

Are you aware that there are even more kids with SN, behavioral issues, non English speakers in public than private?

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Anonymous wrote:I just looked at the source posted with the SAT scores and our $45,000 private school has an average SAT score in the 1200s. This school is considered to be one of the top Catholic schools in the DMV that is highly sought after. College matriculations to top 20 schools are around 25% of the student body (vs around 5% in public schools). Sure, your public school might have a higher average SAT, but I am actually much happier with my kid being among others with lower scores because it will make her stand out even more. See how that works?

I'm sure it's easy to stick out in a graduating class of 10 students.

All at the bargain basement price of $180k! See ya at the state college parent weekend!

Welp my older one is currently at an ivy, so I doubt I will see you. We don't do state schools.

But you do do a$$holery, I see. And quite well, at that!
-dp

Don't forget arrogance, self aggrandizement and classism. All virtues I'm sure they're teaching their kids. This one acts as if public school kids don't get in ivy leagues as well.

Oh I am sure some do, but I was responding to the other A$$hole who mocked our choice to send our kids to private school. It goes both ways, and he basically asked for it. Glad to see my post triggered you.