2024 Washington DC area College commits

[Anonymous]

Wow the “W” schools in Maryland are putting all the privates to shame! Amazing results! We are in a great school pyramid in NOVA but should’ve settled down in Maryland!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow the “W” schools in Maryland are putting all the privates to shame! Amazing results! We are in a great school pyramid in NOVA but should’ve settled down in Maryland!

What's a "W" school?

[Anonymous]

What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow the “W” schools in Maryland are putting all the privates to shame! Amazing results! We are in a great school pyramid in NOVA but should’ve settled down in Maryland!

What's a "W" school?

A select few of the Montgomery County, MD high schools that are excellent to the point of being better than the privates and exponentially better than the other publics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow the “W” schools in Maryland are putting all the privates to shame! Amazing results! We are in a great school pyramid in NOVA but should’ve settled down in Maryland!

What's a "W" school?

A select few of the Montgomery County, MD high schools that are excellent to the point of being better than the privates and exponentially better than the other publics.

Only because the families in those clusters are usually high SES. To be clear. There is nothing superior academically that separates them from other Montgomery county public schools.

[Anonymous]

They aren’t better than the privates. Bethesda Magazine indicates that W school admissions outcomes are good, but hardly great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow the “W” schools in Maryland are putting all the privates to shame! Amazing results! We are in a great school pyramid in NOVA but should’ve settled down in Maryland!

What's a "W" school?

A select few of the Montgomery County, MD high schools that are excellent to the point of being better than the privates and exponentially better than the other publics.

Uhhh no - they are not better in any way. Community, facilitates, resources - come on noone believes this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

Fair enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

Yes 5% of the kids go to top 20 but look at the number. 250 kids is very impressive! If your kid is academically gifted and has something that makes them stand out they will get accepted into a top 20 college regardless if the school is public or private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of W school students are going to T20 colleges?

It's like 5%.

PP here. I did the math a while ago. There are about 4,600 graduating seniors in the "Bethesda Area Schools." Last year about 250 matriculated to top 20 schools.

Schools included are Churchill, Whitman, Wootton, WJ, Blair, Einstein, BCC, Richard Montgomery

What!? Did you seriously sit down and figure this out? Oh my goodness. Listen I attended public high school so I won't diss publics more than I need to but anyone that can afford privates knows the difference. They are night and day. I have friends that were at these and fled to privates. I wish them well but seriously I would never give up my kids' private school education and experience from pre-k to graduating for public. I just would not.

Yes I did sit down to do it because many were claiming at the time that these publics had better outcomes than private schools. And that could very well be the case depending on the private school. But top private schools are more in the 20-25 percent range.

I’m not sure the data is directly comparable because private schools are selective by nature while public schools have to take everyone. Also, on average, private schools cater to wealthier families so even at top magnets, many high performing students will pick UMD or UVA over higher ranked private colleges and universities. These are typically kids from donut hole families who get little to no financial aid but for whom paying full freight is a lot of money especially if they have more than 1 kid

UVA is in Maryland so the poster was talking about Bethesda schools so for out of state for those kids UVA is 52,0000 plus.