S/O - Arlington Magazine 2022 acceptances

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Published Sept 13

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/arlington-class-2022-colleges-universities-applied-accepted/

[Anonymous]

As someone whose kid is a year away from starting the college application process, this is depressing as hell.

Why did so few kids apply to Georgetown compared to other area schools?

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Anonymous wrote:As someone whose kid is a year away from starting the college application process, this is depressing as hell.

Why did so few kids apply to Georgetown compared to other area schools?

My guess - cost. And Georgetown doesn't give merit scholarships, it's all need based. So the donut hole families don't want their children taking on massive student loan debt and won't pay $80000 a year.

It looks like no students applied to GWU (George Washington U.) Their tuition is $62000 and the school doesn't have the reputation/rankings that Georgetown has.

Tuition costs for local schools:
Georgetown is $62000 -
American University is $27,000
Catholic University is $52000 - they will give generous merit aid if you have decent grades & they also have a "scholarship" for registered Catholics (those who regularly attend their home parish)
George Mason is $14000 in state
Howard is $30,000
Marymount is $34,000
Mary Washington is $14000
UMD is $40000 out of state

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone whose kid is a year away from starting the college application process, this is depressing as hell.

Why did so few kids apply to Georgetown compared to other area schools?

My guess - cost. And Georgetown doesn't give merit scholarships, it's all need based. So the donut hole families don't want their children taking on massive student loan debt and won't pay $80000 a year.

It looks like no students applied to GWU (George Washington U.) Their tuition is $62000 and the school doesn't have the reputation/rankings that Georgetown has.

Tuition costs for local schools:
Georgetown is $62000 -
American University is $27,000
Catholic University is $52000 - they will give generous merit aid if you have decent grades & they also have a "scholarship" for registered Catholics (those who regularly attend their home parish)
George Mason is $14000 in state
Howard is $30,000
Marymount is $34,000
Mary Washington is $14000
UMD is $40000 out of state

My mistake - I do see that students applied to GWU.

The other thing I forgot to mention is Georgetown used to have extra application requirements which might deter some students. For example, they still REQUIRED a subject test and or the essay (can't remember which one or both when my DS was considering applying) on the SAT when other schools would only consider the essay and tests if submitted. Georgetown is still requiring the SAT or ACT and most other colleges are now test optional. I don't know if they ever went test optional for the Class of '21 but I do know they were not one of the schools who announced test optional early in the fall of '20.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone whose kid is a year away from starting the college application process, this is depressing as hell.

Why did so few kids apply to Georgetown compared to other area schools?

Because if they can get into Georgetown they are highly likely to get into UVA, which is half the price and just as good if not better and isn’t in their back yard. It’s a no brainer.

[Anonymous]

Kinda dispels the myth about NOVA schools sending "dozens" to UVA doesn't it? Yes they might technically have dozens ut they are huge schools of 500+ kids in the senior class. People accused me of lying when I said my kids school only had about 10 accepted, but we have a population of less than 400.

Washington Liberty for instance according to the school profile has 577 seniors and had 47 accepted, that's 8%, which again means you have to be well under the 10% threshold alot of folks bandy about on this website. Yorktown also only 8% of the population got in.

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Anonymous wrote:Kinda dispels the myth about NOVA schools sending "dozens" to UVA doesn't it? Yes they might technically have dozens ut they are huge schools of 500+ kids in the senior class. People accused me of lying when I said my kids school only had about 10 accepted, but we have a population of less than 400.

Washington Liberty for instance according to the school profile has 577 seniors and had 47 accepted, that's 8%, which again means you have to be well under the 10% threshold alot of folks bandy about on this website. Yorktown also only 8% of the population got in.

For your percentages, you’re assuming all of the senior class for each school applied which isn’t the case.

[Anonymous]

Wow. Arlington kids actually applied to Liberty? Gross.

[Anonymous]

Remember these are self-reported by students so not 100% accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone whose kid is a year away from starting the college application process, this is depressing as hell.

Why did so few kids apply to Georgetown compared to other area schools?

Georgetown is not on the Common App. They have their own app with multiple essays. I’ve heard it is extremely cumbersome.

[Anonymous]

Wow. Too depressing to even say underwhelming. Speechless.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kinda dispels the myth about NOVA schools sending "dozens" to UVA doesn't it? Yes they might technically have dozens ut they are huge schools of 500+ kids in the senior class. People accused me of lying when I said my kids school only had about 10 accepted, but we have a population of less than 400.

Washington Liberty for instance according to the school profile has 577 seniors and had 47 accepted, that's 8%, which again means you have to be well under the 10% threshold alot of folks bandy about on this website. Yorktown also only 8% of the population got in.

For your percentages, you’re assuming all of the senior class for each school applied which isn’t the case.

Right. For example, Yorktown has a tons of committed athletic recruits who go ED and never apply to UVA.

[Anonymous]

This is why people pay for top privates.
The DC Big3 privates (this year) sent 20% to the Ivy League and another 20% to other top 20 universities and another 20% to top 20 liberal arts colleges and another 20% to universities ranked 20-50..

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Too depressing to even say underwhelming. Speechless.

There is no way that some of these numbers are even close to being accurate. A a few weeks ago at a preparing for college night for the parents of seniors at our FCPS high school, the counseling division handed out a sheet with the number of applications and admissions to many colleges for last year's graduating class. Those numbers are far different, even though our high school likely isn't that different demographically than Yorktown High School. For example, the linked article shows that only 10 of 19 Yorktown applicants got into Longwood, while 31 of 32 of our high school's applicants did. Similarly, the linked article states that only 56 of 103 Yorktown applicants got into VCU, whereas 111 of 116 applicants from our high school did. I could cite plenty more examples of big differences.

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Anonymous wrote:Kinda dispels the myth about NOVA schools sending "dozens" to UVA doesn't it? Yes they might technically have dozens ut they are huge schools of 500+ kids in the senior class. People accused me of lying when I said my kids school only had about 10 accepted, but we have a population of less than 400.

Washington Liberty for instance according to the school profile has 577 seniors and had 47 accepted, that's 8%, which again means you have to be well under the 10% threshold alot of folks bandy about on this website. Yorktown also only 8% of the population got in.

I’m the one who said “dozens” and I didn’t say “send”. I said “accept.” Yorktown had 44 accepted for example. Liberty had 47. That’s “dozens.” Wakefield had fewer acceptances but only half the number of applicants. It too is capable of having “dozens” accepted.