A lot of schools are actually starting push kids toward the best fit for the kid, not the what looks best in literature.

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused why going to Potomac would enhance gaining admissions to MIT, or any other T10 for that matter. Rich kids with more homework doesn’t mean more capable students.

Rich kids alone means more capable student. Rich kid and more homework may be an even more capable student. That does not mean they are going to a T10 school.

Huh?

Tons of advantages. Private schools. Tutoring. Etc.

What is so hard about this? You want to know what kids will do better at school? (Maybe “capable” isn’t the right term but let’s not split hairs.) Look at their parents’ income. Duh. Basic stat/correlation. P

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused why going to Potomac would enhance gaining admissions to MIT, or any other T10 for that matter. Rich kids with more homework doesn’t mean more capable students.

Rich kids alone means more capable student. Rich kid and more homework may be an even more capable student. That does not mean they are going to a T10 school.

Huh?

Tons of advantages. Private schools. Tutoring. Etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Potomac had an amazing stem program in the upper school? Shouldn't these kids have a chance at MIT?

That’s my thought too. People are claiming Potomac has one do the best STEM program in private schools, but students are not interested in pursuing all kinds of engineering and computer science in university?

If one looks at TJ grads, it is really surprising that more of them don’t get science/math/engineering degrees after TJ.

It turns out, at TJ and Potomac and also elsewhere, that many parents view any high-school “STEM” program or STEM magnet-school as a good preparation/foundation for a future career in Medicine. Some even use the term STEMM, where the 2nd M is Medicine. (Follow the salary $$.)

If one looks at Potomac, their per se STEM program is competitive, limited size, and surprisingly small. The school ought to increase the number of students allowed in that special STEM program. I do know someone who was in their Robotics Team and now is at a top-10 Engineering school (specifically not MIT) doing Robotics work.

I’m an alumni interviewer in MoCo. Blair Hoovers up most of the acceptees. There are equally strong applicants who are top of their class and highly involved in stem clubs/contests too, that I recommend from other schools but it’s difficult to get in. Period. No slam on SFS or Potomac or Whitman or Churchill HS.

Don’t give up, go to a great program or scholar program elsewhere. Try it for grad school or an MS if you want. Lots of stem jobs require citizenship so you’ll end up in a good position eventually - big public stem, medium or startup.

Kids are picking Stanford over MIT

Anonymous wrote:I thought Potomac had an amazing stem program in the upper school? Shouldn't these kids have a chance at MIT?

That’s my thought too. People are claiming Potomac has one do the best STEM program in private schools, but students are not interested in pursuing all kinds of engineering and computer science in university?

Anonymous wrote:Stuyvesant made MIT feel like a cakewalk, according to all my Asian colleagues. They were thrilled to have survived high school, loved MIT, and love work.

This is false. Nobody thinks MIT is a cakewalk. I have friends who graduated from MIT summa cum laude and they did not think it was a cakewalk. Not remotely. Also, nobody here cares about Stuyvesant. We live in DC. Take your uninformed bloviating elsewhere.

Potomac parent here. Please apply elsewhere. We don't need your nutso personality. Potomac is s special place. Freakshows like you ruin it for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused why going to Potomac would enhance gaining admissions to MIT, or any other T10 for that matter. Rich kids with more homework doesn’t mean more capable students.

Rich kids alone means more capable student. Rich kid and more homework may be an even more capable student. That does not mean they are going to a T10 school.

Huh?

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Anonymous wrote:MIT grad here. None of my friends (late 30s) send their kids to private schools. Frankly, total waste of money and goes against what many of us were raised to believe - that public education is important. MIT was a public school for many years, hence the name. Not that our kids have any better chance of getting in, but just something to consider.

Lol

Public education is great and important. For people of means it is neither good nor bad. What is the best for your child? It may be public. I went to public. My DCs do not. It is a fit issue and an issue of what is best for that specific DC.

Anonymous wrote:I am confused why going to Potomac would enhance gaining admissions to MIT, or any other T10 for that matter. Rich kids with more homework doesn’t mean more capable students.

Rich kids alone means more capable student. Rich kid and more homework may be an even more capable student. That does not mean they are going to a T10 school.

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Applying to MIT means one cannot apply ED anywhere and most bright kids in the area will have one ED first choice and possibly a likely letter or a sports scholarship at that school. They'd have to be willing to turn all of that down just for an off chance of acceptance and MIT.

Hence, many don't apply

You can apply early action at MIT and early decision elsewhere.

Stuyvesant made MIT feel like a cakewalk, according to all my Asian colleagues. They were thrilled to have survived high school, loved MIT, and love work.

Anonymous wrote:MIT grad here. None of my friends (late 30s) send their kids to private schools. Frankly, total waste of money and goes against what many of us were raised to believe - that public education is important. MIT was a public school for many years, hence the name. Not that our kids have any better chance of getting in, but just something to consider.

Lol