McLean HS 2023 Outcomes

[Anonymous]

DC is at McLean, and brought home the senior year edition of the school magazine with school commitments. It's not entlrely complete, of course, since it's self reported. However, I wanted to give some hope to next year's applicants (of which DC is one) that good outcomes are still possible even in this horrible college application environment:

Ivy + MIT: Yale (4), Harvard (2), Cornell (2), Dartmouth (2), Penn, Brown, MIT

Other T30: Georgetown (3), Southern Cal (3), Johns Hopkins (2), Duke (2), Michigan (2), Georgia, Wake Forest, Case Western, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Chicago, Georgia Tech

Top Virginia: UVA (26), VT (22), W&M (16)

Other Virginia: JMU (10), GMU (10), VCU (5), CNU (2), VMI, NoVA, Shenandoah, Emory & Henry, Hampden-Sydney, UMW

SLAC: Bucknell (2), Wesleyan, Tufts, Carleton, Macalester, West Point, Kenyon, Haverford, Wheaton, Franklin & Marshall, Juniata, Muhlenberg

OOS Publics: Tennessee (6), Penn State (6), Pitt (4), Ohio State (4), Illinois (4), Purdue (4), Maryland (3), Colorado (3), Indiana (2), Washington (2), Wisconsin (2), Temple (2), Delaware, Florida State, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oregon, Oregon State, Clemson, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Auburn, Arizona, UC Irvine, SD State, Colorado State, South Florida, Montana, Miami U, U-Mass,

Other: Cambridge, McGill, Toronto, U-Miami, BC (3) BU (2), Northeastern, NYU, Syracuse (4), GWU (2), Howard, Elon (4), San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Tampa, Rollins, Loyola Chicago, Loyola MD, RPI, Pratt (2), Bowling Green (2), Dayton, Xavier,

[Anonymous]

Congratulations to the kids!

[Anonymous]

congrats -

but with the exceptions of MIT, UCs, and Hopkins, the rest still count for legacy. So ....

[Anonymous]

A lot of that list looks like a school where parents can afford to pay a lot for college. I wonder what the list looks like with the same student profiles, but a 30% farms rate

[Anonymous]

Seems better than Langley’s

[Anonymous]

Very underwhelming for upper class grads with legacies, AA and athletic recruitments.

[Anonymous]

It is an impressive list. How big is the senior class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very underwhelming for upper class grads with legacies, AA and athletic recruitments.

The class is about 400+, I think.

There are very few AAs at McLean, about 4%? The profile says that it's 51% White, 26% Asian and 7% "Other" of which most are probably kids of Asian descent who don't want to mark "Asian".

Athletic recruits were only for Duke, Dartmouth, Muhlenberg, Bucknell, Juniata, West Point, Oregon State, Yale, 1 each, according to the magazine.

Legacy? Probably helped some kids get into the T30, but not in all cases of course.

FARMs rate? McLean is higher than Langley but lower than Justice, etc. The higher income folks who can be donors aren't sending their kids to McLean, but are at privates. We have a lot of military and civil service folks here who are not full pay. So McLean is basically like Langley, New Trier (IL), Carmel (IN), Palo Alto (CA) and any number of upper income public high schools. It's a symptom of how we fund public schools in the US that these schools have such demographics.

Again, this is just one set of data points. It will mean different things to different people. There was a recent thread about a 4.6 WGPA/1550+ SAT Mclean kid who didn't get in anywhere. Probably that was a troll, maybe not. But I wanted to give a different point of view with pubilc data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is at McLean, and brought home the senior year edition of the school magazine with school commitments. It's not entlrely complete, of course, since it's self reported. However, I wanted to give some hope to next year's applicants (of which DC is one) that good outcomes are still possible even in this horrible college application environment:

Ivy + MIT: Yale (4), Harvard (2), Cornell (2), Dartmouth (2), Penn, Brown, MIT

Other T30: Georgetown (3), Southern Cal (3), Johns Hopkins (2), Duke (2), Michigan (2), Georgia, Wake Forest, Case Western, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Chicago, Georgia Tech

Top Virginia: UVA (26), VT (22), W&M (16)

Other Virginia: JMU (10), GMU (10), VCU (5), CNU (2), VMI, NoVA, Shenandoah, Emory & Henry, Hampden-Sydney, UMW

SLAC: Bucknell (2), Wesleyan, Tufts, Carleton, Macalester, West Point, Kenyon, Haverford, Wheaton, Franklin & Marshall, Juniata, Muhlenberg

OOS Publics: Tennessee (6), Penn State (6), Pitt (4), Ohio State (4), Illinois (4), Purdue (4), Maryland (3), Colorado (3), Indiana (2), Washington (2), Wisconsin (2), Temple (2), Delaware, Florida State, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oregon, Oregon State, Clemson, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Auburn, Arizona, UC Irvine, SD State, Colorado State, South Florida, Montana, Miami U, U-Mass,

Other: Cambridge, McGill, Toronto, U-Miami, BC (3) BU (2), Northeastern, NYU, Syracuse (4), GWU (2), Howard, Elon (4), San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Tampa, Rollins, Loyola Chicago, Loyola MD, RPI, Pratt (2), Bowling Green (2), Dayton, Xavier,

Interesting list -- thanks for sharing. I'd note, however, that Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Case Western are NOT T30 schools.

[Anonymous]

Crew = Ivy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very underwhelming for upper class grads with legacies, AA and athletic recruitments.

The class is about 400+, I think.

There are very few AAs at McLean, about 4%? The profile says that it's 51% White, 26% Asian and 7% "Other" of which most are probably kids of Asian descent who don't want to mark "Asian".

Athletic recruits were only for Duke, Dartmouth, Muhlenberg, Bucknell, Juniata, West Point, Oregon State, Yale, 1 each, according to the magazine.

Legacy? Probably helped some kids get into the T30, but not in all cases of course.

FARMs rate? McLean is higher than Langley but lower than Justice, etc. The higher income folks who can be donors aren't sending their kids to McLean, but are at privates. We have a lot of military and civil service folks here who are not full pay. So McLean is basically like Langley, New Trier (IL), Carmel (IN), Palo Alto (CA) and any number of upper income public high schools. It's a symptom of how we fund public schools in the US that these schools have such demographics.

Again, this is just one set of data points. It will mean different things to different people. There was a recent thread about a 4.6 WGPA/1550+ SAT Mclean kid who didn't get in anywhere. Probably that was a troll, maybe not. But I wanted to give a different point of view with pubilc data.

lol, by that do you mean flag officers and SES?

[Anonymous]

I love that Cambridge University is lumped at the bottom of the list, with "other". Thank you for lightening up my morning.

[Anonymous]

This is just where kids decided to attend. I bet the acceptances are just as impressive! Congrats to all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems better than Langley’s

It has been, for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is an impressive list. How big is the senior class?

620 this year.