Tell me about Albert Einstein HS

[Anonymous]

Do Einstein kids consider UMCP as a safety? Do most of kids who apply get accepted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do Einstein kids consider UMCP as a safety? Do most of kids who apply get accepted?

Not sure anyone should consider UMCP a "safety school" anymore. According to this chart, only about 50% of the BCC kids who applied last year were accepted...

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/September-October-2014/College-Bound/index.php?cparticle=2&siarticle=1#artanc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do Einstein kids consider UMCP as a safety? Do most of kids who apply get accepted?

Not sure anyone should consider UMCP a "safety school" anymore. According to this chart, only about 50% of the BCC kids who applied last year were accepted...

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/September-October-2014/College-Bound/index.php?cparticle=2&siarticle=1#artanc

True. I worry my DC won't make the cut. The avg SAT scores are very high. I also heard WGPA for incoming class was over 4.0 (4.2 I think but not sure).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do Einstein kids consider UMCP as a safety? Do most of kids who apply get accepted?

UMD is a safety for very few (only the highest performing) students nowadays.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do Einstein kids consider UMCP as a safety? Do most of kids who apply get accepted?

UMD is a safety for very few (only the highest performing) students nowadays.

Really most of the kids from the rest of the W's and Blair got in. Only BCC had a low rate and that might have something to do with the kids who applied to account for the anomaly. Not like UMCP is interview lock level diploma. I think it is a supply and demand problem with them getting picky as there aren't many quality public universities in MD compared to the number of students.

[Anonymous]

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There is no comparison between Einstein and BCC (also an IB school). The student body at BCC is of a different mentality and has been exposed to a much wider culture and sense of the world. Are they snobbish? No, and definitely not compared to the lily white, affluent western Bethesda suburbs. BCC is reasonably diverse because it's the downtown high school.

B-CC: 58% white
Whitman: 70% white
Churchill: 56% white
Wootton: 46% white

Now, what were you saying?

Wootton is also 33% Asisan-so there's that!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We decided to stretch and bought a house in the WJ cluster, instead of Einstein, and I have questioned that decision ever since. We're still ES, and the school is fine, but I have heard so many success stories from the Einstein cluster. When we moved, or agent scared us away from it. As a result, we live in a neighborhood surrounded by all white, upper-class, entitled kids. They will all go to college, and get jobs through daddy's connections, etc. It's a bit depressing. So it depends on what you want for your kid, and your standard of living. If you're stretched to buy the house, that financial strain might become stressful. Especially if your neighbors are all blowing money like it grows on trees...

I can't think of any neighborhoods feeding into WJ that would be described as "all white." The WJ kids I've come across are all quite rooted and down to earth. I don't sense the entitlement.

That's because the post was fiction. This is their vision of what upper-middle class is all about.

I wish it was fiction. There are lots of all-white neighborhoods, all around us. Homes regularly sell for over a million. I'm glad to hear that some areas in the cluster are more diverse. That's encouraging.

Kensington, Garrett park and the Wyngate ES area clusters are very white. There is a bit more diversity in Farmland, Luxmanor and Ashburton ES clusters-they all feed into WJ. Most are wealthy though and quite snobby!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do Einstein kids consider UMCP as a safety? Do most of kids who apply get accepted?

UMD is a safety for very few (only the highest performing) students nowadays.

Really most of the kids from the rest of the W's and Blair got in. Only BCC had a low rate and that might have something to do with the kids who applied to account for the anomaly. Not like UMCP is interview lock level diploma. I think it is a supply and demand problem with them getting picky as there aren't many quality public universities in MD compared to the number of students.

Data please. I'd like to see data that shows that most of the kids from the Ws and Blair get into UMCP.

It is also a supply and demand problem because private colleges and universities are prohibitively expensive for most people.

[Anonymous]

^ NP -- re. data - see @11:51 from yesterday

[Anonymous]

The source for the data is this Bethesda Mag chart

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/September-October-2014/College-Bound/index.php?cparticle=2&siarticle=1#artanc

Acceptances to UMD-CP:

Churchill--83%
Whitman--77%
Wootton--72%
Blair--65%
WJ--64%

[Anonymous]

Can someone post similar data for E?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone post similar data for E?

I bet not too many will get it. Einstein's average SAT score for Math and Reading combined is 1035 which is more than 200 points lower than bottom 25%tile of accepted student (1260-1420, mid 50%tile). Only about 50% of kids took the test which shows not enough kids are college bound.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone post similar data for E?

I bet not too many will get it. Einstein's average SAT score for Math and Reading combined is 1035 which is more than 200 points lower than bottom 25%tile of accepted student (1260-1420, mid 50%tile). Only about 50% of kids took the test which shows not enough kids are college bound.

What does this mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I bet not too many will get it. Einstein's average SAT score for Math and Reading combined is 1035 which is more than 200 points lower than bottom 25%tile of accepted student (1260-1420, mid 50%tile). Only about 50% of kids took the test which shows not enough kids are college bound.

If your point is that there more kids at Einstein from poor and low-SES families than at Whitman/Churchill/B-CC etc. -- I think that everybody knew that already. In fact the small percentage of kids from poor/low-SES families at Whitman and Churchill is precisely what makes them Whitman and Churchill. And the comparatively higher percentage of such kids at B-CC is what keeps B-CC of the Wealthy/White list. Otherwise people would be insisting that B-CC is OBVIOUSLY a W school because the full name is W-Bethesda-Chevy Chase (the W is silent).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many creative excuses! Keep'em coming. I love it.

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