FCPS college outcome

[Anonymous]

Is there any site or link to see FCPS college outcome?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there any site or link to see FCPS college outcome?

Like if they go to college or graduate from college? Or do you mean where they go to college? We may need to to clarify.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any site or link to see FCPS college outcome?

Like if they go to college or graduate from college? Or do you mean where they go to college? We may need to to clarify.

Meant where they go to college. I have seen threads for privates was wondering if similar info for FCPS high schools.

[Anonymous]

There are college decisions pages per each high school. At Marshall HS, at least, the spread is quite big. A couple competitive schools, one or two Ivy, state schools, as well as some schools whose names I had to google, never heard of Kenyon, for example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are college decisions pages per each high school. At Marshall HS, at least, the spread is quite big. A couple competitive schools, one or two Ivy, state schools, as well as some schools whose names I had to google, never heard of Kenyon, for example.

This. Also know that decision pages do not include all decisions — only those that kids want to post. I know several Ivy-bound kids at a number of schools (at both high-performing and low-performing schools) who chose NOT to post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any site or link to see FCPS college outcome?

Like if they go to college or graduate from college? Or do you mean where they go to college? We may need to to clarify.

Meant where they go to college. I have seen threads for privates was wondering if similar info for FCPS high schools.

Where neighbors’ and friends’ kids are going? Is that what you want to know? Or just random students from a HS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are college decisions pages per each high school. At Marshall HS, at least, the spread is quite big. A couple competitive schools, one or two Ivy, state schools, as well as some schools whose names I had to google, never heard of Kenyon, for example.

This. Also know that decision pages do not include all decisions — only those that kids want to post. I know several Ivy-bound kids at a number of schools (at both high-performing and low-performing schools) who chose NOT to post.

What are the reasons someone wouldn't want it posted that they got into an impressive college? Is it just modesty or is there a downside to this information being public?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are college decisions pages per each high school. At Marshall HS, at least, the spread is quite big. A couple competitive schools, one or two Ivy, state schools, as well as some schools whose names I had to google, never heard of Kenyon, for example.

This. Also know that decision pages do not include all decisions — only those that kids want to post. I know several Ivy-bound kids at a number of schools (at both high-performing and low-performing schools) who chose NOT to post.

I doubt it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are college decisions pages per each high school. At Marshall HS, at least, the spread is quite big. A couple competitive schools, one or two Ivy, state schools, as well as some schools whose names I had to google, never heard of Kenyon, for example.

This. Also know that decision pages do not include all decisions — only those that kids want to post. I know several Ivy-bound kids at a number of schools (at both high-performing and low-performing schools) who chose NOT to post.

I doubt it.

I don’t know why this should surprise you. Just look at how adults pick apart kids admitted to TJ and T10 schools on this forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are college decisions pages per each high school. At Marshall HS, at least, the spread is quite big. A couple competitive schools, one or two Ivy, state schools, as well as some schools whose names I had to google, never heard of Kenyon, for example.

This. Also know that decision pages do not include all decisions — only those that kids want to post. I know several Ivy-bound kids at a number of schools (at both high-performing and low-performing schools) who chose NOT to post.

I doubt it.

Sure, Jan. I know two kids going to Yale who did not post. Another going to Cornell. The list goes on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are college decisions pages per each high school. At Marshall HS, at least, the spread is quite big. A couple competitive schools, one or two Ivy, state schools, as well as some schools whose names I had to google, never heard of Kenyon, for example.

This. Also know that decision pages do not include all decisions — only those that kids want to post. I know several Ivy-bound kids at a number of schools (at both high-performing and low-performing schools) who chose NOT to post.

What are the reasons someone wouldn't want it posted that they got into an impressive college? Is it just modesty or is there a downside to this information being public?

They may not want to come across as bragging, maybe. Most of the kids I know who got into Ivies did not post — I only know because they told their friends (my kids) or their parents (my friends) posted it on Facebook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are college decisions pages per each high school. At Marshall HS, at least, the spread is quite big. A couple competitive schools, one or two Ivy, state schools, as well as some schools whose names I had to google, never heard of Kenyon, for example.

This. Also know that decision pages do not include all decisions — only those that kids want to post. I know several Ivy-bound kids at a number of schools (at both high-performing and low-performing schools) who chose NOT to post.

What are the reasons someone wouldn't want it posted that they got into an impressive college? Is it just modesty or is there a downside to this information being public?

They may not want to come across as bragging, maybe. Most of the kids I know who got into Ivies did not post — I only know because they told their friends (my kids) or their parents (my friends) posted it on Facebook.

+1, not everyone insists on sharing all their information online. Parents will probably post though.

[Anonymous]

Why would someone want to know this info? Just curiosity? Our DS graduated from HS a few years ago and we never wondered where kids we didn’t know were going to college.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are college decisions pages per each high school. At Marshall HS, at least, the spread is quite big. A couple competitive schools, one or two Ivy, state schools, as well as some schools whose names I had to google, never heard of Kenyon, for example.

This. Also know that decision pages do not include all decisions — only those that kids want to post. I know several Ivy-bound kids at a number of schools (at both high-performing and low-performing schools) who chose NOT to post.

I doubt it.

Sure, Jan. I know two kids going to Yale who did not post. Another going to Cornell. The list goes on.

I stand by my words. I doubt you "know several Ivy-bound kids at a number of [FCPS]schools", unless by "several" you mean 2 or 3 students at 2 or 3 schools at most.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone want to know this info? Just curiosity? Our DS graduated from HS a few years ago and we never wondered where kids we didn’t know were going to college.

I think some might see it as a reasonable aggregated barometer of student body / school performance, and a metric to evaluate differences between schools (e.g. at school A you probably need to be top-20 in your class to be able to get into UVA or a T25 school, but at school B maybe just being a top-50 student in your class will provide similar odds for college outcomes).