Feeder public high schools in DMV
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Anonymous
| I’m seeing a lot of private school parents talk about the relationships their schools have with various colleges and that they act as feeders to these colleges. Are the well- ranked public schools in this area - assuming your child graduates with a great GPA- also considered feeders? Or they are just too big and don’t have college counselors focused on creating relationships with admissions teams at colleges, so no dice? |
Anonymous
| Alexandria City is the best! |
Anonymous
| Blair Magnet feeder to MIT - 11 last year |
Anonymous
out of Magnet class of 109 |
Anonymous
| Jackson Reed (formerly Wilson) used to be a feeder to Michigan. At one point (maybe 5-6 years ago) it was on a list of schools that send the most kids each year. But it's gotten a lot harder to get into Michigan so I'm not sure anymore. |
Anonymous
In 2025? You sure you didn't mean to put a "+" sign between the ones. Because 1+1=2 https://www.polarislist.com/best-high-schools-in-maryland |
Anonymous
This website must not be accurate because it says 3 went to Harvard from my DC’s school and none went in 2025. |
Anonymous
Funny you should mention that because if you check their insta they show like 7 kids going to Michigan from class of 2026. Seems like they consistently send 3 to Penn each year nowadays. |
Anonymous
| You should see B-CC. We entered in 9th and college results are fantastic. I don't know about specific college connections but when you look at the admits there is something the kids are doing right. And each class has 600 kids and many of them don't post. Probably 100 total decide to post? I know 4 Ivy bound this year that have not posted and I hear there are more and can see from our Naviance. Best decision ever. |
Anonymous
Can you expand on this? We are an ACPS family with two in middle school. Can a school that large really provide personalized college counseling to their thousands of students? |
Anonymous
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in case this is useful:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college |
Anonymous
We keep going over this- this numbers are not 100% accurate and self reported. |
Anonymous
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Other than a school like Blair sending all those kids to MIT (that's really an incredible stat; I assume TJ has crazy stats but they have far more students), I don't think there are really feeder public high schools.
It's more that every year each top school will accept several kids from each of like 20-30 public high schools in the DMV, and those kids do well, so the school is comfortable accepting several kids year after year. I do think if say you apply to Harvard from Bladensburg High, it's a tough lift for the Harvard AO to have to spend a ton of time figuring out if a top student from Bladensburg is really a "top" student considering many years not a single student will apply to Harvard, while they know a Whitman top student is a top student in general. |
Anonymous
Can’t speak to the college counseling at Alexandria City, but my guess is that the college results there are due more to demographics than to amazing school based college counseling. Families with means will typically hire private counselors. |
Anonymous
Potomac and Georgetown Day are the only schools in the DMV that the site says sent 3 to Harvard in 2025. I think the Potomac number is correct, no idea bout Georgetown Day. |